Top Cast
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Alik Asatryan
Avetik
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Mikhail Stepanyan
Young Avetik
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Karen Dzhanibekyan
Refugee
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Eduard Saribekyan
Kuchak
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Samvel Ovazaryan
Armenian King
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Geno Lechner
Journalist
Overview
A tableaux of poetry and images exploring the historical trauma, identity, and collective memory of the Armenian people centered on an Armenian filmmaker exiled in Berlin.
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