"THE LARK FARM" NOT PREMIERED IN ORDER TO AVOID CONTROVERSY?

PanARMENIAN.Net
19.02.2007 15:05 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Critics argue that some of the best films in Berlin
this year were outside the main lineup. "This year a buzz may have
been created by "The Lark Farm," a drama depicting the tragedy of a
family almost wiped out in the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman
Turks in 1915," The Boston Globe reports. The newspaper reminds that
Turkey denies allegations by Armenia and others that 1.5 million
Armenians died in systematic genocide at Turkish hands.

"The film comes at precisely the right time-after the murder of
the Armenian journalist Hrant Dink and threats against the Turkish
Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk. It would have been a highlight of the
Berlinale, perhaps the most important film of the year. But it’s not in
the main section. Perhaps they wanted to avoid the big controversy. How
unfortunate," wrote Peter Zander of the German newspaper Die Welt.

Paolo and Vittorio Taviani’s film "Masseria delle Allodole" (Skylark’s
Farm) shot on the basis of Antonia Arslan’s novel tells about the
Armenians Genocide through the story of a family which lives in Western
Armenia and awaits the arrival of their parents from Italy. Alas,
the First World War prevents this family from joining and the family
members became victims of the genocide perpetrated by the Turks. This
film with total budget of 9,7M ~@ is a co-product by Italy, Spain,
Belgium, France and Eurimages. In "The Lark Farm" Canadian-Armenian
actress Arsine Khanjian, Alessandro Preziosi, Ángela Molina and others
play key roles.

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