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1915 the Armenian Genocide

A film directed by Mark Bedrosian, based on the recollections of four Armenian Genocide survivors who witnessed the destruction of their families and towns during the orchestration of the Armenian Genocide by the Turkish government in 1915. Produced and released in 1980 (the first one hour production on the subject), the film was lost for more than 20 years until a print from the original surfaced in a Hollywood film lab vault in 2002. After several years of frame by frame restoration and recovery of missing scenes from the 1980 interviews of the survivors, the film was finally rereleased in 2012 by Medusa Films.

Cast and Crew

Written and Directed, Mark Bedrosian

Narrator, Paul Schaefer

Producers, Val Mijailovic, Paul Schaefer, Curtis Jones, and Mark Bedrosian

Editor

Val Mijailovic

Plot

Part I begins with detailed historic review of the Armenian civilization dating back to 2500 B.C. Beginning with the first King of Armenia Haik (the great, great grandson of Noah) mentioning an Armenian Prince who fought in the Trojan War to win Cassandra's hand to Armenian emperor Tigranes the Great and the eventual rise of Christianity in Armenia at the time when Christ still walked on earth and officially becoming the first Christian state in AD 301.

Part II begins with the background narrative of late 19th century Ottoman Empire and the rise of industrial Germany leading up to WWI, and the tragic consequences for the vulnerable Armenian population living in a strategic and coveted land of historic Armenia. Introducing the principles of the Ottoman Turkish government and architects of the Armenian Genocide including the German Generals and military attaches in Constantinople on the eve of the Gallipoli expedition in the Dardanelles which coincides with the initial arrests of Armenian intellectuals and political figures by the Turkish authorities on April 24, 1915; the official date marking the beginning of the Armenian Genocide…