Archive of films Documentarist / Vaveragrogh

Armenia
2003, 62 min

Section: Documentary Films - Competition
Year: 2003

The chapters Quarry, Maternity Hospital, Beggars, Beggars’ Feast, Children’s Home, Refugees and The Shooting tell a tale about today’s Armenia.

Synopsis

The chapters The Quarry, Maternity Hospital, Beggars, Beggars’ Feast, Children’s Home, Refugees and The Shooting all give a testimony of today’s Armenia. Working with stone, weddings and a woman giving birth, the sense of solidarity – these are among the lighter aspects of a country devastated by war and unemployment. A country gripped by poverty, exodus, alcoholism and crime. The governor of a prison sees her clients as political prisoners, since they abused the independence of their country. They are satiated, their children are hungry. Criminals hunt people, people hunt stray dogs. But death is followed by new life, and hopelessness by hope.

About the director

Harutyun Khachatryan (1955, Akhalkalak, Georgia) studied film at the State Pedagogical Institute in 1981. He then worked as director of the Documentary Department of Hayfilm/Armenfilm studios. Select filmography: Voices of the District (1981), Hosted by the Commander (1985, co-dir. with N. Hovhannisyan), Chronicle of a Case (1985), Three Rounds from Vladimir Yangibaryan’s Life (1986), Kond (1987), White Town (1988), The Wind of Emptiness (1989), Return to the Promised Land (1991), the psychological drama The Last Station (1994).

Contacts

Hayfilm Studio
#50 Gevorg Chaush Str., 375088, Yerevan
Armenia
Tel: +374 1 343 000
Fax: +374 1 393 538
E-mail: [email protected]

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About the film

Black & white, 35 mm
World premiere

Section:	Documentary Films - Competition

Director:	Harutyun Khachatryan
Screenplay:	Harutyun Khachatryan, Mikayel Stamboltsyan, Valeri Gasparyan
Dir. of Photography:	Vahagn Ter-Hakobyan
Music:	A. Terteryan, M. Musorgsky
Editor:	Sophia Gabrielyan
Producer:	Gevorg Gevorgyan
Production:	Hayfilm
Contact:	Hayfilm Studio

Guests

Harutyun Khachatryan

Festival Organizer, Film Director