from film AVETIK by Don
Askarian
Int.Film Fest.Rotterdam named
Don Askarian: King of Cinema
Full version of the film by
donfilm@yahoo.com About his
films see
http://www.don-askarian.am
Don Askarian
http://www.splitfilmfestival.h
r/arhive/2007/askarian.htm)
Don Askarian was born in
Stepanakert, Nagorno Karabakh.
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from film AVETIK by Don
Askarian
Int.Film Fest.Rotterdam named
Don Askarian: King of Cinema
Full version of the film by
donfilm@yahoo.com About his
films see
http://www.don-askarian.am
Don Askarian
http://www.splitfilmfestival.h
r/arhive/2007/askarian.htm)
Don Askarian was born in
Stepanakert, Nagorno Karabakh.
In 1967 he went to Moscow and
studied history and art. He
worked as an
assistant-director and film
critic for a year after his
study.
In 1975-1977 Don Askarian was
imprisoned. In 1978 he
emigrated from USSR to West
Berlin.
For the last 25 years he has
lived and worked in Germany,
The Netherlands and in
Armenia, where he founded his
own film companies.
He is a prize-winner at
several international film
festivals. In 1996 Don
Askarian published his book
'The Dangerous Light'. Every
year the interest to his
really very unique films grow
up. More and more film
festivals come to honor Don
Askarian with retrospectives.
Serious TV-stations like ARD,
WDR, ZDF, Channel 4, Arte, but
also Belgian, Greek, Swiss,
Slovakian, Armenian etc. TV
Channels are constant
co-producers and buyers of all
his films. The films of Don
Askarian were sold and
broadcasted world wide about
100 times. Don Askarian,
honored with a Harvard Film
Archive retrospective, is
considered the greatest
Armenian filmmaker (but he is
Russian-German- Dutch too). In
2004 he received Golden Camera
Award for Life Achievement at
Int. ART Film Festival,
Slovakia. It turns out to be
clearer what Hans-Werner
Dannowski, the president of
Interfilm, meant in 1992:
'Time will pass until we
recognize that Don Askarian is
one of the most important
filmmakers of our times. His
movies will take up the time
they need. Finally the films
will have their success not
with lies and assimilations
but with truth.' The
retrospectives and special
screenings around the world,
on TV and important film
festivals reflect it, mirror
the growing interest in Don
Askarian's films followed by a
broad fascination by the
audience.
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Azerbaijan Bahrain Barbados
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and Herzegovina Brazil
Bulgaria Republic of Bulgaria
Burundi Cambodia Cameroon
Canada Central African
Republic Chad Chile China,
Colombia Croatia Cuba Cyprus
Czech Denmark Egypt El
Salvador Eritrea Estonia
Finland France -- Georgia
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China Hungary India Indonesia
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Korea Kuwait Kyrgyzstan --
Kyrgyz Latvia -- Republic of
Latvia Lebanon -- Liberia --
Republic of Liberia Libya --
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Republic of -- Republic of
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Malta Mexico Monaco Mongolia
Morocco Karabakh Nagorno
Karabakh Namibia Netherlands
Netherlands Antilles
(Self-governing country in the
Kingdom of newZealand arab
Nicaragua Nigeria Oman
sultanate of Oman Pakistan --
Islamic Republic of Pakistan
Palestine Panama Peru
Philippines Portugal -- Qatar
Romania Russia Saudi Arabia
Serbia Republic of Serbia
Singapore Slovakia Slovenia
Somalia South Africa spain Sri
Lanka -- Sudan Sweden
Switzerland Syria Tajikistan
Tanzania -- Thailand See East
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Emirates United Kingdom Great
Britain and Northern Ireland
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Uzbekistan Vatican City
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