Komitas

Komitas

96 mins | Drama, TV Movie | April 1, 1989

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.

Komitas

96 mins | Drama, TV Movie | April 1, 1989

Komitas
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.
Producers Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Channel Four Films, RTBF, FFA, Sender Freies Berlin, Margarita Woskanjan Filmproduktion
Original title Komitas
Directors Don Askarian
Writers Tessa Hofmann, Don Askarian

Cast

Samvel Ovasapian

as Komitas

Omig Saadetian

as Terlemesian

Yeghishe Mougikian

as Katholikos

Kegham Khatcherian

as Armenian Monk

Kameh Jaryani

as Angel 1

Mohammad Tohmasebi

as Musician 1

Eksander Abadii

as Musician 2

Sonja Askarian

as Angel 2