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Ararat

Year:
Duration:
USA:115 min
Genres:
Drama | War
IMDB rate:
6.6
Director:
Atom Egoyan
Awards:
12 wins & 13 nominations
Details
Country: Canada
Release Date: 2002-09-04
Filming Locations: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Earnings
Opening Weekend: $211,130 (USA) (17 November 2002)
Gross: $1,554,566 (USA) (26 January 2003)
Cast
Actor
Character
Simon Abkarian
Arshile Gorky
Charles Aznavour
Edward Saroyan
Christopher Plummer
David
Arsinée Khanjian
Ani
Setta Keshishian
Dinner Guest / Wailing Mother
David Alpay
Raffi
Shant Srabian
Dinner Guest #3 / Doctor #1
Marie-Josée Croze
Celia
Elias Koteas
Ali / Jevdet Bay
Brent Carver
Philip
Max Morrow
Tony
Christie MacFadyen
Janet
Dawn Roach
Customs Officer
Garen Boyajian
Young Gorky
Lousnak Abdalian
Gorky's Mother
Raoul Bhaneja
Photographer, Levon
Haig Sarkissian
Sevan
Eric Bogosian
Rouben
Bruce Greenwood
Clarence Ussher
Gina Wilkinson
Art Teacher
Arshile Egoyan
Child at Gallery
Kevork Arslanian
Armenian Fighter
Vic Keshishian
Armenian Fighter
Serge Keshishian
Armenian Fighter
Arthur Hagopian
Armenian Fighter
George Kharlakian
Armenian Fighter
Shant Kabrielian
Armenian Fighter
Varazh Stephen
Doctor #2
Samir Alnadi
Turkish Officer
Carlo Essagian
Turkish Soldier
Rose Sarkisyan
Translator
Chris Gillett
Celia's Father
Jean Yoon
Third Assistant Director
Shahan Bulat-Matossian
Wounded Teen Patient
Manuel Ishkhanian
Teen Patient's Brother
Susan Raymond
German Woman
Lorna Noura Kevorkian
Armenian Bride
Mandyf Nissani
Armenian Bride
Manal Elmasri
Armenian Bride
Roberta Angelica
Armenian Bride
Andrea Loren
Armenian Bride
Araxie Keshishian
Armenian Bride
Linda Gizirian
Rape Victim
Nicole Anoush Strang
Girl Under Cart
Erica Ehm
Journalist
Sevaan Franks
Chris MacRae
Fayadee #6
Nikki Barran
Armenian Woman (uncredited)
Marie V. Cruz
Gallery Patron (uncredited)
Chengis Javeri
Turkish soldier (uncredited)
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Trivia
Ararat (2002) premiered as part of the 'Official Selection', but out of competition at the Cannes Film Festival 2002. Atom Egoyan's prior film ( Felicia's Journey (1999) ) and his subsequent film ( Where the Truth Lies (2005) ), artistically less ambitious films, were both screened in competition at Cannes. The reasons for not being part of the 'Official Competition' in 2002 were debated and arte still ambigious: Some claim political pressure on the festival by Turkey, while Egoyan said he himself decided not to enter Ararat (2002) for competition at Cannes: "This film is dealing with a period of history that has never been represented before on film. The idea of subjecting that to the additional pressures of a jury - given all the pressures that are on this film already - seemed to be unnecessary."
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Director and screenwriter Atom Egoyan(born Atom Yeghoyan) is a Canadian citizen of Armenian descent. Other prominent Armenians of significance in film history include Sergei Parajanov, Henri Verneuil(born Ashot Malakian), Charles Aznavour(born Chahnour Varinag Aznavourian), Cher, Haig Manoogian, Rouben Mamoulian, Robert Guédiguian, Eric Bogosian, Richard C. Sarafian, Francis Veber, Albert Hughes and Allen Hughes, Anna Melikyan, Aram Avakian and many more.
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The Italian release of this film was intended to be on April 24th 2003. However, its showing was unexpectedly banned by Italian authorities a day before the planned release, with the authorities explaining that the film's distributor had failed to submit in time the application to obtain the required censorship certificate.
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Quotes
Raffi: Were you serious about what you told him?
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Ali, actor playing Jevdet Bey: [to Edward Saroyan] I think the Turks had a real reason to believe that the Armenians were a threat to their security. I mean, their eastern border was threatened by Russia and, I mean, if they believed that the Armenians were gonna betray them; so this was their war. Populations get moved around all the time.
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Rouben: Every scene in this film is based on this document.
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