Komitas

Komitas

1988
1h 36m
6.0

6.0/10

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Overview

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.

Status: Released

Language: DE

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Production Information

Production Companies
Sender Freies Berlin Margarita Woskanjan Filmproduktion RTBF WDR Channel 4 Television
Production Countries
Belgium Germany Soviet Union United Kingdom
Spoken Languages
Armenian German

Quick Facts

Original Title Կոմիտաս
Release Date September 5, 1988
Status Released
Language DE
IMDb ID tt0095459

Cast

Samvel Ovasapian
Samvel Ovasapian

Komitas

Margarita Woskanjan
Margarita Woskanjan

Pupil

Omig Saadetian
Omig Saadetian

Terlemesian

Yeghishe Mougikian
Yeghishe Mougikian

Katholikos

Kegham Khatcherian
Kegham Khatcherian

Armenian Monk

Sybille Vogelsang
Sybille Vogelsang

Nurse

Kameh Jaryani
Kameh Jaryani

Angel 1

Mohammad Tohmasebi
Mohammad Tohmasebi

Musician 1

Eksander Abadii
Eksander Abadii

Musician 2

Sonja Askarian
Sonja Askarian

Angel 2

Key Crew

Don Askarian
Director
Don Askarian
Writer
Don Askarian
Producer
Margarita Woskanjan
Producer