TURKISH PRESS ANNOUNCED NOT SHOT FILM ANTI-TURKISH

PanARMENIAN.Net - Director Don Askarian's new film "Hundred Takes of Ararat" is being prepared to production. The film script was written a few years ago and now German and Dutch companies have agreed to participate in the film production. At present the project is at the stage of final financing and preparation to shooting. Meanwhile, Turkish press has already announced it anti-Turkish. "The base and motives of the film are quite in a different angle," - Don Askarian stated in this regard. In the director's words, to make a film about Mount Ararat is an old dream of his and an idea to realize in the cinema what Japanese Hokusai did when drawing Fuji. Regarding the fact that Turkish press reacts painfully, I hope, the film will also help them to understand themselves, he stated. "If newspapers mean a theme of genocide, in 1987 I made the film "Komitas", about the composer, whose destiny is connected to this tragedy," - the director said. The film premiere was held at Venice cinema festival, after which it was shown in almost all European countries.