Songs of Solomon

Nov 26, 2020

1h 43m

★ 10.0

Overview

Inspired by true events, this is a film about a childhood friendship, torn apart by the horrific Hamidian massacres infiltrated by the Ottoman Empire under the rule of Sultan Abdul Hamid II (1894-1896).

Genres

Drama

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Cast

Komitas

Samvel Tadevossian

Osman

Arman Nshanian

Garbis

Sos Janibekyan

Sevil

Arevik Gevorgyan

Sona

Tatev Hovakimyan

Archbishop Dertsakyan

Jean-Pierre Nshanian

Abdullah

Artashes Aleksanyan

Grandmother

Shake Tukhmanyan

General

Rudolph Ghevondyan

Anhayt Kin

Narine Grigoryan

Lavash Kin

Tatev Ghazaryan

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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