- Director
Vardan Hovhannisyan - Producer
Vardan Hovhannisyan - Production company
Bars Media - Editor
Tigran Baghinyan - IDF Events
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A Story of People in War and Peace
A Story of People in War and Peace, Armenia, 2006, 70 min, 8 mm, Creative
As a journalist, Vardan Hovhannisyan was supposed to spend five days reporting on the trench warfare in Nagorny Karabakh, a highland territory battled over by Armenia and Azerbaijan. Instead, he stayed for four years. When his son asked him several years after the war if he had been a soldier, he did not know what to answer. The complicated nature of the question prompted Hovhannisyan to trace the uncertain whereabouts of the comrades he fought with in order to ask them about their feelings regarding the past. In so doing, he practically ignores the political context, making the film a story about any war where neighbors suddenly become enemies. "All of us were affected by the war," says Hovhannisyan, and his interviews with those whom he was able to track down only serve to confirm this statement. The painful past lives on in people’s present-day lives: in one's altered state of mind, in shattered family relationships, or in the effort to forget what happened.
Director:
Vardan Hovhannisyan
Producer:
Vardan Hovhannisyan
Editor:
Tigran Baghinyan
Languages:
Armenian
Subtitles:
English
Bars Media
20 Sepuhi Str.
375028 Yerevan 0028, Armenia
375028 Yerevan 0028, Armenia
Phone:
+374 10 22 67 33, +374 10 22 65 46
Fax:
+374 10 22 65 53
WWW:
Email:
Bars Media
20 Sepuhi Str.
375028 Yerevan 0028, Armenia
375028 Yerevan 0028, Armenia
Phone:
+374 10 22 67 33, +374 10 22 65 46
Fax:
+374 10 22 65 53
WWW:
Email:
East European Stand at Sunny Side of the Doc
East Silver 2006
