Don't Look In The Mirror Armenia
2009, 100min.
Producers: Gevorg Gevorgyan, Vardan Abovyan, Director: Suren Babayan, Script: Suren Babayan, Story by: Perch Zeituntsyan, Director of Photography: Gevorg Sarkisyan, Composer: Edward Hairapetyan, Prod. Design: Vardan Sedrakyan, Sound: Karen Tsaturyan, Editor: Arthur Soghomonyan
Cast: Jean - Pierre Nshanyan
The main hero of the film is one of our contemporaries, named Hero. Received an education in art. Used to be an artist, and later a good copy maker. He is an art model at present. Keeps himself going by selling everything, left over from the better times. And so the clock strikes “X” hour as he is about to sell the icon. No sooner has he done that he experiences a metamorphosis. He sees not his own reflection but a face of a completely unknown person in the mirror. Over time Hero observes more and more new personages instead of his own reflection. What compounds his problem is that others can also see not him, but strange faces in the mirror. That causes some situations both comic and dramatic. It turns out that the people he sees in the mirror are his own embodiments. There is a moment when they all come together at a table in the mirror and have a conversation about his past and future about a person's morality, and harsh accountability of one’s actions. At the turning point Hero is unable to see anyone in the mirror at all, including himself. And only one of the film characters can see the reflection of Hero in his home mirror. Hero is magnetically attracted to that place – to the house, the home where he does exist. He hopes to find himself there. Hero realizes that asperity leads us to faith.
Production Company
National Cinema Centre of RA Ministry of Culture
38a Puskin Street
0010 Yerevan, Armenia
Tel.: (374 10) 500230
Email: kinokentron@yahoo.com
www.ncca.am
| Babayan, Suren  Suren Babayan (born 1950, Yerevan)
Graduated from the Directing Department of Yerevan Institute of Art and Theatre in 1973. In 1974 and 1975 worked as an actor and director of TV theatre. In 1979 graduated from the Moscow High Courses in Directing as a feature film director (N. Mikhalkov’s course).
Filmography
Neutral Situation (1978), The Eighth Day of Creation (1980), Cry of a Peacock (1982), Frunze Dovlatyan (1986), The Thirteenth Apostle (1987), Facing the Wall (1989), Blood (1990), P. S. (1993), Gyumri-review (1996), Crazy Angel (2001), Jeano (2004), Don’t Look in the Mirror (2009)
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