BIRTH film Old Roman Road Don Askarian Holland Armenia DE
Video Info
Description:
from the film ON THE OLD ROMAN ROAD by Don Askarian
Int.Film Fest. Rotterdam named Don Askarian: King of Cinema
Order DVD via donfilm@yahoo.com
www.don-askarian.am
Technical data: Size 35 mm, length 76 min, colour, Dolby SR, 2001.
SYNOPSIS:Levon remembers his childhood in Turkey: love, political brutality. A bloody comedy. Also a modern crime story about Armenian terrorists and Turkish secret agents, about Kurds tragedy.
The Harvard Film Archive about the film:"Levon--a writer of Armenian extraction now living in Rotterdam - is caught between memories of homeland and the realities of contemporary life. ...poetic, almost surrealist scenes of magic love and political cruelty are contrasted with the reality of present day Rotterdam, presented in the guise of a modern crime story with Armenian terrorists and a Kurdish tragedy".
" Every year, we look at thousands of films and when one shines above the rest, as ON THE OLD ROMAN ROAD did, it is indeed a pleasure. As striking a visual feast as one can find, this is an extravagant and crystalline treasure, a film whose rewards far outweigh its considerable demands". Don Askarian, recently honoured with a Harvard Film Archive retrospective, is considered the greatest Armenian filmmaker".
Kelly Clement
Taos Talking Picture Festival
CREDITS
Script writer, director, editor, art director
Don Askarian
Cameraman
Rudolf Vatinyan
Sound
Keese v.d. Knapen
Line produsers
Annemiek van Gorp
Nune Hovhannisyan
Co-producers
Rene Goossens
Annemiek van Gorp
Commissioning editor
Joachim von Mengershausen (WDR)
Producer
Don Askarian
Co-produced by
De Productie ,Holland
Film 21, Holland
Askarian Film, Germany
With financial support of
Rotterdam Film Fund
Dutch Film Fund
Hubert Bals Fund
In participation with
WDR, Germany
CAST
Lover & killer
Peit van Dijk
Sylvia
Sylvia Gelton
Levon as boy
Pavel Khachatrian
Levon
Don Askarian
Successor of Armenian king
Ohan Askarian
Pigeoner & plunderer of the dead Moslems
Stepan ShahinyanAnna
Anna Basentyan
Turkish secret service agent
Tim de Zwart
Don Askarian
(http://www.splitfilmfestival.hr/arhive/2007/askarian.htm).
is a prize-winner at several international film festivals. In 1996 Don Askarian published his book "The Dangerous Light". Every year the interest to his really very unique films grow up. More and more film festivals come to honour Don Askarian with retrospectives. Serious TV-stations like ARD, WDR, ZDF, Channel 4, Arte, but also Belgian, Greek, Swiss, Slovakian, Armenian etc. TV Channels are constant co-producers and buyers of all his films. The films of Don Askarian were sold and broadcasted world wide about 100 times. Don Askarian, honoured with a Harvard Film Archive retrospective, is considered the greatest Armenian filmmaker (but he is Russian-German- Dutch too). In 2004 he received Golden Camera Award for Life Achievement at Int. ART Film Festival, Slovakia. It turns out to be clearer what Hans-Werner Dannowski, the president of Interfilm, meant in 1992: "Time will pass until we recognize that Don Askarian is one of the most important filmmakers of our times. His movies will take up the time they need. Finally the films will have their success not with lies and assimilations but with truth." The retrospectives and special screenings around the world, on TV and important film festivals reflect it, mirror the growing interest in Don Askarian's films followed by a broad fascination by the audience.
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