Alter Ego
Back| Year of participation | 2017 |
| Program | Feature Competition |
| Producer(s) | Vigen Chaldranyan, Gevorg Gevorgyan, Karen Ghazaryan |
| Director(s) | Vigen Chaldranyan |
| Script | Vigen Chaldranyan, Ruben Hovsepyan |
| Director of Photography | Artur Ustyan |
| Production designer | Vigen Chaldranyan |
| Music by | Andranik Berberyan , Claude Debussy, Komitas, Avet Terteryan |
| Sound | Tigran Kuzikyan, Arman Avetisyan |
| Edit | Manvel Hovsepyan |
| Cast | Vardan Mkrtchyan, Ani Ghazaryan, Arto Khachaturyan, Vache Sharafyւan |
| Production company(-ies) | National Cinema Center of Armenia, Sharm Holding |
Synopsis
The central character is Edgar Novents, a well-known writer and lecturer on the Department of Journalism of the University. He is focused on writing a novel about Rev. Komitas, the great Armenian composer and musicologist, and this provides the bridge between the present and the past. Relying on historical facts, archived documents, psychological hypotheses, Edgar Novents tries to elicit the Paris period of Komitas' life, to penetrate the enigma of the last years of life of the great son of the Armenian people in the Psychiatric hospital of Villejuif, to bring to light his Great Silence in a gentle and restrained way. To convey fidelity to his novel, The Great Silence, Edgar Novents is trying to share in and understand the sufferings of his literary hero. As a wellbornintellectual, Edgar Novents also is the chronicler of his time, he is always in the focus of modern events, which have been so much shaped by the horrors of the past.
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