Films Dedicated To The Armenian Genocide
Ararat is a film about the genocide of Armenians in 1915. It’s a biopic of the great Armenian painter Arshile Gorky. "Ararat" explicitly views the past from the perspective of the present, using the device of a film-within-a-film, featuring tiny 70s crooner Charles Aznavour and screenwriter (Eric Bogosian), both from Armenian descent. Director: Atom Egoyan |
Mayrig is a film about an Armenian family forced to emigrate from its ancestral homeland to France because of the ongoing Armenian Genocide (1915-1923) perpetrated by the Turkish Government,starring Omar Sharif and Claudia Cardinale |