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

Maria suffers from the strangest illness; it resembles cancer but with one distinct difference: it somehow connects Maria to the fate of a 15th century woman named Donna Maria. Maria begins to time travel, gradually discovering the absolute brutality of history. She learns that Donna Maria was a Hungarian princess taken to a Bursa harem as a concubine of Ottoman's Sultan.

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No overview available.

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