Interrogated by a customs officer, a young man recounts how his life was changed during the making of a film about the Armenian genocide.
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Atom EgoyanWriter:
Atom Egoyan
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Cast
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Simon Abkarian | ... | Arshile Gorky | |
| Charles Aznavour | ... | Edward Saroyan | |
| Christopher Plummer | ... | David | |
| Arsinée Khanjian | ... | Ani | |
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Setta Keshishian | ... | Dinner Guest / Wailing Mother |
| David Alpay | ... | Raffi | |
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Shant Srabian | ... | Dinner Guest #3 / Doctor #1 |
| Marie-Josée Croze | ... | Celia | |
| Elias Koteas | ... | Ali / Jevdet Bay | |
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Brent Carver | ... | Philip |
| Max Morrow | ... | Tony | |
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Christie MacFadyen | ... | Janet |
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Dawn Roach | ... | Customs Officer |
| Garen Boyajian | ... | Young Gorky | |
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Lousnak Abdalian | ... | Gorky's Mother |
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People tell stories. In Toronto, an art historian lectures on Arshile Gorky (1904 -1948), an Armenian painter who lived through the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire. A director invites the historian to help him include Gorky's story in a film about the genocide and Turkish assault on the town of Van. The historian's family is under stress: her son is in love with his step-sister, who blames the historian for the death of her father. The daughter wants to revisit her father's death and change that story. An aging customs agent tells his son about his long interview with the historian's son, who has returned from Turkey with canisters of film. All the stories connect. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords:
armenian | armenian genocide | armenia | art history professor | armenian flag |Taglines:
A Quest For Truth... Among Lies, Deception And Denial. See more »Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
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Release Date:
6 December 2002 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Box Office
Budget:
$15,500,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend USA:
$211,130, 17 November 2002Gross USA:
$1,555,959Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
$2,743,336Company Credits
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Raffi: This is too weird for me.
Ani: What is weird Raffi?
[pause]
Ani: Smoking pot, or sleeping with you step-sister?
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(Politically Lying, Unholy, Cowardly Killers)
Performed by System of a Down
Written by Daron Malakian (as Malakian) / Serj Tankian (as Tankian) / Shavo Odadjian (as Odajian) / John Dolmayan (as Dolmayan)
DDevil Music (ASCAP)/ System of Down (ASCAP)/ Sony/ ATV Tunes LLC,
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Administered by SONY/ ATV Music Publishing, 8 Music Square West, Nashville, TN 37202
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Ani: Did you give her my book?Raffi: This is too weird for me.
Ani: What is weird Raffi?
[pause]
Ani: Smoking pot, or sleeping with you step-sister?
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Crazy Credits
Closing disclaimers: 1) The historical events in this film have been substantiated by holocaust scholars, national archives, and eyewitness accounts, including that of Clarence Ussher. 2) To this day, Turkey continues to deny the Armenian Genocide of 1915. See more »Soundtracks
P.L.U.C.K.(Politically Lying, Unholy, Cowardly Killers)
Performed by System of a Down
Written by Daron Malakian (as Malakian) / Serj Tankian (as Tankian) / Shavo Odadjian (as Odajian) / John Dolmayan (as Dolmayan)
DDevil Music (ASCAP)/ System of Down (ASCAP)/ Sony/ ATV Tunes LLC,
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The high frequency of attacks on this film as being 'proArmenian propaganda' is a testament to the power of the movie. The historical accuracy or moral culpability of the Turks vs. the Armenians in this conflict is not within my knowledge base to judge absolutely, nor that of most of the posters on IMDB, I suspect, so I will just judge this as a movie.
Egoyan has managed the trick of avoiding a simple tearjerker black hat white hat polemic like Mel Gibson's The Patriot (or Braveheart or Passion of the Christ or We Were Soldiers or Chicken Run or....) or even 'Schindler's List' by the technique of distancing the audience to one remove, by making his film actually about an Armenian-Canadian filmmaker making a film about the Armenian Holocaust. Obviously, 'Ararat' still manages to stir up powerful emotions, but by also examining the responses of the film cast and crew and their loved ones and others with whom they come into contact the film attains a more mature and introspective value.