A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Release Date:
September 5, 1988
Original Title:
Komitas
Alternate Titles:
Կոմիտաս
Genres:
Drama | TV Movie
Production Companies:
Channel 4 Television
Margarita Woskanjan Filmproduktion
RTBF
Sender Freies Berlin
WDR
Production Countries:
Belgium | Germany | Soviet Union | United Kingdom
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 96
The film is dedicated to the Armenian monk and genius composer Komitas, and the 2 million victims on his people in Turkey in 1915. The final 20 years of Komitas life were spent in various mental hospitals. The destiny of Komitas? This is the magic beauty of Armenian culture and the abhorrent brutality of Armenian history. A cultural and artistic world that was slaughtered with a curved knife. A humanity that doggedly advances towards an apocalyptic catastrophe, that does not recognize its own original purpose, eradicates its own memory, its final roots.
Costume Design:
Bernhard Mühl
Dialogue:
Tessa Hofmann
Director:
Don Askarian
Director of Photography:
Eberhard Geick
Martin Gressmann
Giorgos Arvanitis
Editor:
Marion Regentrop
René Perraudin
Original Music Composer:
Feqiyê Teyra
Producer:
Don Askarian
Margarita Woskanjan
Sound Re-Recording Mixer:
Ralf Krause
Special Effects:
Lothar Tropp
Writer:
Don Askarian
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