Ararat
A variety of characters, some close relatives, others distant strangers, are each affected by the making of a film about the Armenian Genocide of 1915.
Atom Egoyan
Casts & Crew
Simon Abkarian
Charles Aznavour
Christopher Plummer
Arsinée Khanjian
David Alpay
Marie-Josée Croze
Elias Koteas
Brent Carver
Max Morrow
Christie MacFadyen
Dawn Roach
Garen Boyajian
Lousnak Abdalian
Also Directed by Atom Egoyan
Egoyan juxtaposes home-video images of his son Arshile with a self-portrait of the famed Armenian artist, Arshile Gorky; Egoyan narrates in English, while his wife narrates in Armenian. The self-portrait made from a photo of the artist as a child at the time of the great massacre of the Armenians is used as a focus for meditations on the nature of self-awareness, artistic expression, and the relationship between the artist and the viewer.
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