TAVIANI BROTHERS: THE "LARK FARM" FILM IS NOT ANTI-TURKISH

ArmRadio.am
15.02.2007 15:37

The "Lark farm" film presented at the Berlin International Film
Festival, which tells about the Armenian Genocide and the annihilation
of rich Armenian families residing in Turkey in those times, is not
"anti-Turkish," the producers say.

Producers of the film, Italian film directors Paoplo and Vittorio
Taviani, said that their message is more inclusive – a human tragedy,
to which a contemporary conflict leads. The picture presents the
inhumane cruelty of Ottoman Turks towards Armenian families.

"This film is not against Turks," Paolo Taviani told Reuters,
pointing out that in the film a Turk helps save some of the family’s
children. The murderer is not the Turks but the movement of Young
Turks. It is the same that happened in Italy during fascist rule and
the nazi rule in Germany."

"We want to find connection with what is happening in Kosovo and Rwanda
nowadays," said Vittorio Taviani, "We think it was necessary to turn
to one of the greatest tragedies of mankind, because there is nothing
worse than the war between people well familiar with each other."

Taviani brothers expressed confidence that Turkey must join the
European Union. "But we are sure that Turkey needs to publicly
recognize the historic truth about the Armenian tragedy as Italy and
Germany did it," they said.

Canadian Armenian film director Atom Egoyan’s wife Arsine Khanjyan,
who stars the film, noted that Turkey still has a ling way to
pass. "Turkey should change its approach on the Armenian Genocide,
but it has serious human rights problems connected with other ethnic
minorities," she said.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress