POLISH FILMMAKER AGNIESZKA HOLLAND: "A QUALITY FILM ABOUT THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IS WAITING TO BE MADE"
- Agnieszka Holland, one of Poland's most prominent filmmakers visiting Armenia for the screening of her film "In Darkness" at the Golden Apricot Film Festival, told reporters that, "A quality film about the Armenian Genocide still needs to be made. It's a reality that still needs recognition."
Holland, many of whose films deal with WWII, was at a loss to explain why a good film has yet to be made regarding the 70 year existence of the Soviet Union and the terrible repression that took place within its borders.
Considered a Hollywood outsider, Holland stated that she is one of those directors who place the primarmy emphasis on the composition which is succeeded by the placement of the images.
"They coalesce and create a history that answers those questions that compel me to make films," Hollan explained.
Perhaps Holland's best-known and well-regarded film is Europa Europa (1991), based on the biography of Solomon Perel, a Jewish teenager who fled Germany for Poland following Kristallnacht in 1938.
In Darkness (2011), a nominee for Best Foreign Language Film award at the 84th Academy Awards as Polish entry, is based on true events.
The film tells a story of Leopold Socha, a sewer worker in the Nazi-occupied Polish city of Lwów (since 1945 Lviv, Ukraine), who used his knowledge of the city's sewer system to shelter a group of Jews of the Lvov Ghetto during the Holocaust in Poland.
It's a theme that strongly resonates with Holland who was born in Warsaw a few years after the end of the WWII.
Her father's parents were killed in the ghetto, and her mother participated in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising and was a member of the Polish Underground.
"I didn't select this theme, it selected me many years ago and I have become its slave," Holland said.
Before martial law was declared in Poland, she had emigrated to France in 1981.
RESPECT THE FILM-GOERS: LET'S IMPROVE NEXT YEAR'S GOLDEN APRICOT FILM FESTIVAL
The 9th annual Golden Apricot Film Festival in Yerevan came to a close yesterday amidst the pomp and circumstance that such events seem to automatically spawn.
While I wasn't at the closing ceremony, ...3,507 ACCEPTED TO YEREVAN STATE UNIVERSITY THIS FALL
Out of the 5,400 students who applied to Yerevan State University for the fall semester, 3,507 have been accepted according to the school's rector Aram Simonyan.
Simonyan told reporters that 381 applicants ...HUMAN RIGHTS IN ARMENIA TO FACE SCRUTINY BY UN TREATY BODY
The human rights record of Armenia will face the scrutiny of the United Nations Human Rights Committee on Monday 16 July and Tuesday 17 July in meetings that will be webcast live on the Internet.
As one ...JURISPRUDENCE PAYS TOP TEACHING DOLLAR AT YSU
The highest paying teaching jobs at Yerevan State University, averaging 700,000 AMD yearly are in the field of jurisprudence.
The lowest paying spots, at an average of 280,000AMD, are in the fields of ...SEVEN ARMENIAN COLLEGE STUDENTS GET BAPTIZED AT CALCUTTA ARMENIAN COLLEGE
On July 15, students and teachers of Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin's Armenian College and Philanthropic Academy (ACPA) and the Armenian Community of Kolkata, India celebrated the Feast of Holy Transfiguration ...POLISH FILMMAKER AGNIESZKA HOLLAND: "A QUALITY FILM ABOUT THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IS WAITING TO BE MADE"
Agnieszka Holland, one of Poland's most prominent filmmakers visiting Armenia for the screening of her film "In Darkness" at the Golden Apricot Film Festival, told reporters that, "A quality film about ...TAYLOR NETWORK BACK IN BUSINESS
Until it was shut down last year, the company registration business of New Zealander Ian Taylor was one of the most outrageous examples of the criminal services industry - companies that enable organized ...
ARMENIA IS STILL ENERGY INSECURE
GRENADE DISARMED ON VILLAGE BUS
BRUNO DIDN'T KNOW THE ARMENIAN-TURKISH BORDER WAS CLOSED: A TRAVELLER'S TALE
SEC INVESTIGATES ERICSSON BRIBE ALLEGATIONS
US: $520 MILLION LOST TO ONLINE CRIME IN 2012
OSCE SECRETARY GENERAL TO HAND OVER A DONATION CERTIFICATE TO "MOURATSAN" HOSPITAL
ARRESTED HARSNAKAR SUSPECTS REGISTERED AS DAVIT D.V.S. COMPANY EMPLOYEES
SMALL HYDRO POWER PLANTS IN ARMENIA
ARMENIAN RADIO HOUR OF NEW JERSEY DISCUSSES THE MURDER OF DR. VAHE AVETYAN AND MEMBER OF ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT RUBEN HAYRAPETYAN (VIDEO)
POLISH FILMMAKER AGNIESZKA HOLLAND: "A QUALITY FILM ABOUT THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IS WAITING TO BE MADE"
POLICE COLLECTING MATERIALS IN DEATH OF PREGNANT WOMAN
FALSE AGENDA: LET'S PUT THE CURRENT CONSTITUTION INTO PRACTICE, RATHER THAN AGAIN CHANGING IT
EU DONOR CONFERENCE FOR ARMENIA IN AUTUMN WAS NEVER REALISTIC
BOYS OF ARMENIAN COLLEGE, KOLKATA WIN THE CENTENARY PLATE
PETITION CAMPAIGN TO SAVE HISTORIC SYRIAC ORTHODOX MONASTERY IN MARDIN
- 1826 Persian forces invade Artsakh, Shoragial and Pambak. Start of the Second Russo-Persian War.
- 1915 Ambassador Morgenthau explicitly described to the United States Department of State the policy of the Young Turk government as a campaign of "race extermination", and was instructed, by United States Secretary of State Robert Lansing, that the "Department approves your procedure ... to stop Armenian persecution".
ARMENIAN NEWS
INTERACTIVE NEWS
INFORMATION
MY ARMTOWN
How to quit smoking?
How to write in Armenian on Windows XP?
All materials published on this website are taken from open sources and are copyrighted by their respective owners. You cannot reproduce or copy any materials published on armtown.com without written consent of original copyright holder. If you want to remove any material, please send us an email with proof of ownership/copyright and your material will be removed immediately. All materials published for information purposes only.