Armenia

Armenia

125 mins | Drama, Crime | June 28, 2006

This is a story about returning to ones ancestral homeland. Anna is a cardiologist who discovers her father has fled to his native Armenia after being diagnosed with a heart problem. Despite their contentious relationship, she sets out to bring her father back for this operation. Anna is a tough-minded, headstrong woman with little feeling for her fathers homeland or patience with its politics and socially intrusive culture, yet she finds this journey not only a reunion of sorts, but one of reconciliation as well.

Armenia

125 mins | Drama, Crime | June 28, 2006

Armenia
This is a story about returning to ones ancestral homeland. Anna is a cardiologist who discovers her father has fled to his native Armenia after being diagnosed with a heart problem. Despite their contentious relationship, she sets out to bring her father back for this operation. Anna is a tough-minded, headstrong woman with little feeling for her fathers homeland or patience with its politics and socially intrusive culture, yet she finds this journey not only a reunion of sorts, but one of reconciliation as well.
IMDb rating 6.7
Producers Canal+, France 3 Cinéma, CinéCinéma
Original title Le Voyage en Arménie
Directors Robert Guédiguian
Writers Marie Desplechin, Ariane Ascaride, Robert Guédiguian

Cast

Ariane Ascaride

as Anna

Simon Abkarian

as Sarkis Arabian

Serge Avédikian

as Vanig

Gérard Meylan

as Yervanth

Chorik Grigorian

as Schaké

Romen Avinian

as Manouk