Film · Drama, TV Movie

Komitas (1988)

The film is dedicated to the Armenian monk and genius composer Komitas, and the 2 million victims on his people in Turkey in 1915. The final 20 years of Komitas life were spent in various mental hospitals. The destiny of Komitas? This is the magic beauty of Armenian culture and the abhorrent brutality of Armenian history. A cultural and artistic world that was slaughtered with a curved knife. A humanity that doggedly advances towards an apocalyptic catastrophe, that does not recognize its own original purpose, eradicates its own memory, its final roots.

Director

Don Askarian

Writers

Don Askarian, Tessa Hofmann

Country

Germany, Russia, United Kingdom

Language

German

Release date

September 5, 1988

Original title

Կոմիտաս