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The story (with its thematic parallels, in the early scenes, to De Sica's 1970 Garden of the Finzi-Continis) concerns the Avakian clan. An Armenian family living an affluent lifestyle and periodically shuttling back and forth between their two comfortable homes, the Avakians feel convinced that the rising tide of Turkish hostility on the horizon means little to them and will scarcely affect their day to day. Indeed, The Avakians ignore the warning signs, and set about preparing for a family reunion with the impending visit of two well-to-do sons - landowner Aram, who resides in Turkey, and Assadour, a physician living in Venice. Lo and behold, these illusions come crashing down when a Turkish military regiment crops up at the house, annihilates every male member of the family and forces the ladies to trek off into the Syrian desert, where they will be left to rot. Meanwhile, a handsome Turkish officer (Alessandro Preziosi) falls for Aram's daughter and makes an aggressive attempt to deliver her and her family from certain death, even as the circumstances surrounding him attest to the astounding difficulty of this goal.
The movie is great but what annoyed me was that it's all in Italian, thought the Turkish people could have spoken a little Turkish and looked a little more like Turks, they are speaking a lovely language in Italian and I didn't think it was a good touch.
In Melbourne Australia this movie was shown at a private show two years ago and is going to be shown again in two weeks time.
The site is http://forums.foriegnmoviesddl.com, register to it and you will have access to more Armenian films. There is also Sayat Nova (1968) from the great director Sergei Parajanov.
I have downloaded the files and unzipped them they all work great, here it is
The forum is awesome, it has plenty of hard to find films and what's better is that they are faster then torrents, I highly recommend people register to it.
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