Komitas (1988)
Կոմիտաս
Overview
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.
What is Komitas about?
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. Komitas is a TV Movie, Drama movie, released on 1988-09-05, runtime 96 minutes.
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Directed by
Don Askarian
Cast
- Samvel Ovasapian as Komitas
- Margarita Woskanjan as Pupil
- Omig Saadetian as Terlemesian
- Yeghishe Mougikian as Katholikos
- Kegham Khatcherian as Armenian Monk
- Sybille Vogelsang as Nurse
- Mohammad Tohmasebi as Musician 1
- Eksander Abadii as Musician 2
- F. Teyra
- Kameh Jaryani as Angel 1
- Sonja Askarian as Angel 2
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Sources
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