Completed - ENGLISH, ARMENIAN - Road movie - 93 minutes
Armenia's political independence becomes a deciding factor in this compelling tale of lost love and broken dreams.
Year of production : 1995 Director(s) : Harutyun KHATCHATRYAN, Nora ARMANI Writer(s) : Gerald PAPASIAN, Mikayel STAMBOLTSYAN, Nora ARMANI Producer(s) : Gevorg GEVORGYAN (Armenfilm), Nora ARMANI
Gerald, a Diaspora-born Armenian actor reminisces about his life and his years together with his wife Nora as a traveling stage couple, performing a play about identity and belonging. The play within the film serves as a haunting parallel to their own lives and their feelings of marginality. Their tours bring them to Armenia at the brink of independence. At the decisive moment of truth, faced with the reality of an impoverished homeland, each one of them has to choose whether to stay or to leave. The play is inspired from the real life tours of Gerald Papasian and Nora Armani with their widely acclaimed award-winning stage production: Sojourn at Ararat
Country(ies) : USA Financing plan : Parev Productions - France Start of shooting : July 1991