Our Century Armenia
1982, 47min.
Script/Dir./Edit.: Artavazd Peleshian, Dir. of Phot.: L.Poghosyan, O.Savin, R.Voronov.
This is a philosophical film-poem about our century, a man paves his own way to his own soul through an intellectual quest, tragedies of nations and personal drama. The road moving through the cosmic distances, is a flight into one's internal world. This flight and this drama are revealed in the film.
Production Company
Yerevan Film Studio
| Peleshyan, Artavazd  Artavazd Peleshyan (born 22.02.1938, Leninakan, now Gyumri, Armenia)
Till 1963 he lived in Kirovakan (now Vanadzor). 1963-67 - studied at the Directing Department of VGIK (L.Christie's master-class). Even the films shot during his student years, were awarded numerous prizes and he gained wide recognition among cinematographers. 1971 - co-director in L.Kulidjanov's "Star Minute," directed documentary segment in A.Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky's "Sibiriada." He is the author of a range of theoretical works, among which the "Distance Editing" is a new step in the development of editing theory. 1988 - published book "My Cinema." In his films has removed the borders of feature and documentary films, editing both sequences as a real poetical unity.
Filmography
Mountain Patrol (1964), Earth of People (1966), The Beginning (1967), We (1969), Inhabitants (1970), Seasons (1975), Our Century (1982), Life (1993), The End (1994).
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