Komitas (1988)
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
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Samvel Ovasapian as Komitas |
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Margarita Woskanjan as Pupil |
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Omig Saadetian as Terlemesian |
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Yeghishe Mougikian as Katholikos |
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Kegham Khatcherian as Armenian Monk |
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Sybille Vogelsang as Nurse |
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Kameh Jaryani as Angel 1 |
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Mohammad Tohmasebi as Musician 1 |
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Eksander Abadii as Musician 2 |
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Sonja Askarian as Angel 2 |
| Directing | Don Askarian | Director |
| Writing | Don Askarian | Writer |
| Editing | René Perraudin | Editor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Bernhard Mühl | Costume Design |
| Sound | Feqiyê Teyra | Original Music Composer |
| Production | Don Askarian | Producer |
| Camera | Giorgos Arvanitis | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Martin Gressmann | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Tessa Hofmann | Dialogue |
| Sound | Ralf Krause | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Production | Margarita Woskanjan | Producer |
| Crew | Lothar Tropp | Special Effects |
| Camera | Eberhard Geick | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Marion Regentrop | Editor |
| Writing | Komitas | Story |
