Armenia, an Open Wound Switzerland
2007, 52min.
Script/Dir.: Werner Weick, Dir. of Phot.: Angelo d'Auria, Sound: Luca Maccanetti, Sound Mix.: Maura Pessina, Edit.: Gaby Weick.
Cast: Sarkis Shahinian, Raymond Kevorkian, Yves Ternon, Janine Altounian, Sen Arevshadian, Samvel Garapedian.
The testimony of an Armenian born Swiss citizen, Sarkis Shahinian, who has been struggling for many years for the recognition of the Armenian genocide perpetrated on his people in 1915, when one-an-a-half million Armenians were deported and slain by the "Young Turks" regime. The truth of the genocide continues to be denied by the political authorities in Ankara, and such stubbornness generates an obsessive thirst for justice and truth for the descendants of the victims.
Production Company
Swiss State Television, Italian spoken
Address: CH - 6901 Lugano (Switzerland)
| Weick, Werner Werner Weick
Journalist, director and producer, has worked for TSI since 1963, filming hundreds of reports and investigative documentaries as well as over 200 cultural documentaries which were awarded numerous prizes and were acquired for broadcast abroad.
For the last 12 years he has authored and produced an in-depth cultural programme entitled “FILO D’ORO”, i.e. GOLDEN THREADS, which introduces personalities of great prominence and insight. Although they are not well known by the public at large, they are champions of the dialogue between the East and the West.
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