Completed - ARMENIAN, NORWEGIAN - Drama, First film - 87 minutes
Two lives... two loves... two women...
Year of production : 2009 Director(s) : Hovhannes GALSTYAN Writer(s) : Hovhannes GALSTYAN, Marine ZAKARYAN, Thomas SCHLESINGER Cast : Lorance RITTER, Serge AVEDIKIAN, Siri Helene MULLER, Sos JANIBEKYAN Producer(s) : Gevorg GEVORGYAN (Hayfilm), Hovhannes GALSTYAN (Parallels Film production LLC), Mona STEFENNSEN (Original Film AS)
Norway, World War II. HANNA, whose husband Henrik participates in the resistance movement, gives temporary asylum to a prisoner of war, ARAKEL, by hiding him in her house in northern Norway. The presence of this stranger changes Hanna’s life, and she starts writing about her mixed feelings in her diary… USSR, Armenia, 1988. LAURA, 42, a single and fiercely independent math-teacher, lives a quiet and isolated life in Yerevan. It seems that nothing can change her rigidly ordered daily routine until she receives the diary of her mother, who died while giving birth to her. As Laura learns about her parents' story for the first time - a love story of desperation, loss and primal passion - she begins to experience a parallel story of forbidden love in her own life.
Country(ies) : ARMENIA, NORWAY, FRANCE Financing plan : 2011: Cannes: World Distribution Agreement with INSOMNIA World Sales Start of shooting : June 2006
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Moscow International Film Festival 2011 (Perspectives Competition)2nd IFF “East & West, Classics and Avant-garde” 2011 (International Competition Best Actress Prize. Awarded LAURENCE RITTER for the role LAURA)NUR IFF, Toronto, Canada. 2011 (2nd Prize for the Best Feature Film)43rd WORLDFEST-HOUSTON 2011 (BEST DRAMATIC FILM – Special Jury Prize) Rostov Film Festival, Rostov, Russia. 2011 (Honorary prize.)13 IFF ARPA, L-A, California USA 2011 (BEST SCRIPT AWARD.)HAYAK Armenian National Film Award: 2011 ( Best Soundtrack (Nominant))HAYAK Armenian National Film Award: Best Debut for last 20 years 2011 (Award)Tromso 20th IFF, Scandinavian premiere, Tromso, Norway 2011 (Scandinavian premiere)The European premiere in 39th IFF Rotterdam 2011 (Bright Future program)Pantalla Pinamar Film Festival, Pinamar, Argentina 2011 (Special screening Revelation: The Armenian Cinema.)Festival of the Best films of GIS Countries in Europe. Prague, Czech Republic. 2011 (Best films of GIS Countries in Europe)34th San Paulo International Film Festival. 2011 (International Perspectives Competition)Locarno Film Festival. 2013 (Open Doors program.)