White Town (12+)
Armenia, 1988, colour, 37 мин. min.
Director: Harutyun Khachatryan
Director: Harutyun Khachatryan
Akhalkalaki, a provincial Armenian town in Georgia, is depicted as burlesque and the same time tragic model of a Soviet town. Shot in 1988, only a few years before the collapse of the USSR, White Town in a way predicted the upcoming national conflicts, on the on hand, and the raise of the national movements on the other.
AWARDS
«Sesterce D’Argent” Award at 21st Nyon IDFF, 1989; Special Mention at «Cinema du Reel” Festival, Paris, 1988
Harutyun Khachatryan
Harutyun Khachatryan
was born in Akhalkalak (Georgia). In 1981 he graduated from the Film Division of the Department of Culture of the Armenian State Pedagogical University. In 1981-1986, he worked as an assistant to director and film-director at the Armenian Documentary Studio and in 1987 – 2005 he worked in Hayfilm aka Armenfilm Studio as Director and Producer.
FILMOGRAPHY
The Voices of the District, 1981; Hosted by the Commander, 1985; Chronicle of a Case, 1985; Three Rounds From Vladimir Yengibaryan’s Life, 1986; Kond, 1987; White Town, 1988; The Wind of Emptiness, 1989; Return to the Promised Land, 1991; The Last Station (Verjin Kayaran), 1994; Documentarist, 2003; Return of the Poet, 2006; Border, 2009; Endless Escape, Eternal Return, 2014; Deadlock, 2016.
Armenia, 1988, colour, 37 мин. min.
Director: Harutyun Khachatryan
Director: Harutyun Khachatryan
Akhalkalaki, a provincial Armenian town in Georgia, is depicted as burlesque and the same time tragic model of a Soviet town. Shot in 1988, only a few years before the collapse of the USSR, White Town in a way predicted the upcoming national conflicts, on the on hand, and the raise of the national movements on the other.
AWARDS
«Sesterce D’Argent” Award at 21st Nyon IDFF, 1989; Special Mention at «Cinema du Reel” Festival, Paris, 1988