Komitas

The film is dedicated to the Armenian monk and genius composer Komitas, and the 2 million victims on his people in Turkey in 1915. The final 20 years of Komitas life were spent in various mental hospitals. The destiny of Komitas? This is the magic beauty of Armenian culture and the abhorrent brutality of Armenian history. A cultural and artistic world that was slaughtered with a curved knife. A humanity that doggedly advances towards an apocalyptic catastrophe, that does not recognize its own original purpose, eradicates its own memory, its final roots.

Director: Don Askarian

Cast: Samvel Ovasapian, Margarita Woskanjan, Omig Saadetian, Yeghishe Mougikian, Kegham Khatcherian, Sybille Vogelsang, Kameh Jaryani, Mohammad Tohmasebi

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