ArmenPress
June 24 2004

AHKTAMAR FILM RELEASED

YEREVAN, JUNE 24, ARMENPRESS: The Yerevan-based Moskva cinema
house will screen on June 27 the first showing of a new film, called
Akhtamar, based on the same name poem by Armenian poet Hovhanes
Tumanian. The music is composed by an Istanbul-based Armenian
composer Sirvard Garamanuk.
The film is about a young man, who attempting to cross the water
to get to his lover Tamar, living on an island in the middle of Lake
Van (in Turkey) ultimately succumbs to the waves in the night, “after
their secret love was revealed by some jealous enemies, who put down
the light, that served for him as a beacon and all frustrated were
his hopes to see the familiar light in the dark. Pulling all his
strength together, in vain he tried to find his way”.
The film was shot by a combined crew of producer, director and
cameramen from Armenia and New York on Lake Sevan . “The idea of the
film is to introduce the young generation to classical and
traditional Armenian art, ” film producer said today.