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A journey through memories of the Armenian genocide. This exciting road movie leads to deep in Turkey, looking for traces that are still witnesses of the Armenian genocide (1915-1916). Protagonist is a young Turkish-Dutch scientist Ugur Üngör (28). He is doing PhD research on the Armenian genocide and encounters on a book by Vahram Goekjian. They survived the genocide and as a young man drew his story in a book. Üngörs travel is a filmmaker Alexander Goekjian (36), the grandson of Vahram. Through his grandfather, he is inextricably linked to the fate of the Armenians in eastern Turkey. The filmmaker and researcher travel together into the area where the family lived for centuries Goekjian: Kozan in eastern Turkey. Director Kay Mastenbroek follows them with half camera for the making of. He brings the tensions in the picture above the curious questions of the two calls to local governments, but also within the Turkish-Armenian film team. The film carries on a number of historical places in the history of the Armenian genocide is of great importance. For example, in the Turkish capital Ankara to find the documents that the involvement of the Turkish government to prove genocide. The trip also along Erzincan, the birthplace of Ugur Üngör. Here he got his grandfather to hear that the Armenian genocide actually took place. Until that time, he, like most Turks, a mild denier them. In Zimara try Goekjian and Üngör history of persecution of the Armenians to reconstruct, which would eventually lead to a massacre in the Euphrates and on the banks of the Hazar Lake. Deep hidden in the labyrinth of the old city of the Kurdish capital of Diyarbakir, the remains of the largest Armenian church in eastern Turkey, a silent witness to what once was. In Kozan Goekjian and Üngör go looking for the birthplace of Alexanders grandfather. Vanwegedeh Director: Alexander Goekjian and Kay Mastenbroek.
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