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People tell stories. In Toronto, an art historian lectures on (1904 -1948), an Armenian painter who lived through the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire. A director invites the historian to help him include Gorkys story in a film about the genocide and Turkish assault on the town of Van. The historians family is under stress: her son is in love with his step-sister, who blames the historian for the death of her father. The daughter wants to revisit her fathers death and change that story. An aging customs agent tells his son about his long interview with the historians son, who has returned from Turkey with canisters of film. All the stories connect.
Filmmaker Edward Sorayan is making a non-documentary movie recounting the 1915 Armenian genocide by the Turks. This movie will be controversial if only because of the denial by the Turkish government that the genocide even exists. Regardless, Sorayan plans on using what he considers real life events and people as the basis for the movie. One character added late into the screenplay is Armenian painter . The filmmakers hire an art historian named Ani, an expert on Gorkys life, as a consultant for the film. Ani is currently having problems in her own family as her stepdaughter Celia accuses her of being the direct cause in the death of Celias father/Anis second husband. Celia even resorts to public outbursts to guilt Ani to tell what Celia believes to be the truth about the death. This public disagreement places Anis son, Raffi, in an awkward position as he is Celias lover. As filming occurs and the story of the Armenian genocide is told, Raffi travels to the former Armenia - now Turkey - to discover truths about his cultural past and his familys more immediate past. Upon his return from Turkey, Raffi has problems reentering the country, which leads to Raffi recounting much of his time in Turkey and exactly what is in the film reel canisters to the questioning customs agent named David, who has his own indirect connection to the movie.
Charles Aznavour
Edward Saroyan
Brent Carver
Philip
Eric Bogosian
Rouben
Simon Abkarian
Arshile Gorky
Christopher Plummer
David
Arsinée Khanjian
Ani
Setta Keshishian
Dinner Guest
David Alpay
Raffi
Shant Srabian
Dinner Guest #3
Marie-Josée Croze
Celia
Elias Koteas
Ali
Max Morrow
Tony
Christie MacFadyen
Janet
Dawn Roach
Customs Officer
Garen Boyajian
Young Gorky
Lousnak Abdalian
Gorky's Mother
Raoul Bhaneja
Photographer, Levon
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