Topic: Cinema

In recent years, Aurora Mardiganian’s name has become familiar to wider audiences thanks to the rediscovery of “Ravished Armenia,” the silent film in which she portrayed her own story, and[...]

WATERTOWN — Shushanik Mirzakhanyan, director of the National Cinema Center of Armenia (NCCA), visited Boston in April, as part of the Boston Armenian Film Festival organized by the Amaras Art[...]

YEREVAN — Italian film director Giuliano Montaldo, during his visit to Armenia in 1974, said the following in an interview: “A film editor of Armenian origin, named Baghdikian, works in[...]

YEREVAN – The long-waited movie “Zulali” was released on October 21 in Yerevan. The film is about personal hardships in the small community of Berd in the Tavush region and[...]

PARIS – Nora Martirosyan’s film “Si le vent tombe” , shot before the Turkish-Azerbaijani forces attacked, has just been released in French cinemas. This film is now[...]

MONTREAL — The Lebanese civil war’s aftereffects continue to traumatize people even today. Among other things, the war played an important role in the shaping of the Armenian diaspora. Marlene[...]

MOSCOW – In 1965 the Soviet government was getting ready to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Great October Revolution of 1917. The government invited moviemakers to discuss the prospects[...]

By Artsvi Bakhchinyan Special to the Mirror-Spectator YEREVAN — Years ago, a woman in Tbilisi read the coffee grounds of an Armenian woman named Gohar Khalatova, and informed her that on[...]

By Artsvi Bakhchinyan Special to Mirror-Spectator YEREVAN/BERLIN — German-Armenian actor Saro Emirze was born in 1977 in Frankfurt am Main. Between 1999 and 2003 he studied acting at the Felix[...]

NEW YORK – Under the non-Armenian name Arthur Edmund Carewe there was a man with a very Armenian identity – Hovsep Hovsepian, once one of the most prominent actors on[...]