Avetik

A tableaux of poetry and images exploring the historical trauma, identity, and collective memory of the Armenian people centered on an Armenian filmmaker exiled in Berlin.

Cast

Alik Asatryan

as Avetik

Mikhail Stepanyan

as Young Avetik

Karen Dzhanibekyan

as Refugee

Eduard Saribekyan

as Kuchak

Samvel Ovazaryan

as Armenian King

Geno Lechner

as Journalist

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