Back to Ararat ( Tillbaka till Ararat / I Hate Dogs )

Back to Ararat (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Tillbaka till Ararat / I Hate Dogs
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
135 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Short Film

Movie filmed in 1988 and produced in:
Armenia ( Russia, Eastern Europe )
Sweden ( Scandinavia, Iceland )

Directed By:
Jim Downing
Göran Gunér
Suzanne Khardalian

Written By:
Göran Gunér
Per-Åke Holmquist

Synopsis:

This documentary interviews some of the survivors of the 1915 genocide of 1.5 million Armenians. Most of the interviewees now live among the large Armenian communities that have settled in California. Each survivor tells of the horrors of this time, and how he or she survived it. With this information, viewers may better understand the frenzied efforts of modern-day Armenian nationalists to win attention to their cause (sometimes involving acts of terrorism) become easier to understand. The Armenians, like the Kurds or the Bedouin, are yet another large ethnic group living in contiguous territory which is governed by a large number of different nations and whose nationalistic urges are uniformly met with ferocious repression by those nations. The DVD also includes a short film "I Hate Dogs".

Using archival footage, old photographs and interviews with survivors, the documentary tells the story of the slaughter of over one million Armenians in 1915.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 08 April, 2009.