CAST:
Paz Vega (Nunik),
Moritz Bleibtreu (Ferzan),
Alessandro Preziosi (Egon),
Ángela Molina (Ismene),
Tchéky Karyo (Aram)

SCRIPT:
Paolo and Vittorio Taviani (based on the novel by Antonia Arslan)

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Giuseppe Lanci

Synopsis:

This is the adaptation of Antonia Arslan’s novel for screen. She is an Italian writer whose family is originally from Armenia and it is a story about the successful Armenian family Avakian living in Turkey. They are preparing for a big family gathering and trying to ignore the ever growing and more openly displayed intolerance of the Armenian people from the Turks. They are still convinced that this cannot affect their lives. The family is visited by among others doctor Assadour from Venice and the landowner Aram from Turkey. Soon, the happiness of the family is ruined by the arrival of a Turkish military squad who murder the men and force all the women to march to the Syrian Desert.

color, 122 min