Komitas
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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.
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Cast
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Don Askarian Director · Werner Smoch Composer Giorgos Arvanitis Cinematographer
First release September 5, 1988 · Produced in Belgium, Germany, Russia, United Kingdom, Armenia · Languages Armenian, German
Production
Sender Freies Berlin
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Margarita Woskanjan Filmproduktion
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RTBF
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WDR
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Channel 4 Television
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Channel Four Films
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FFA
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Radio Télévision Belge Francophone
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Westdeutscher Rundfunk
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Belgium · Germany · Russia · United Kingdom · Armenia
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Original title
Կոմիտաս
Original language
German
Spoken on screen
Armenian · German
Release dates
Italy · September 5, 1988
Premiere · Venice Film Festival
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