REGIONAL FESTIVAL OF SILENT FILMS TO BE HELD IN YEREVAN ON OCCASION OF CHARLIE CHAPLIN’S BIRTHDAY
Author: Ruzanna Bagratunian Editor:
Noyan Tapan
Apr 13 2007
YEREVAN, APRIL 13, NOYAN TAPAN. A festival of silent films will take
place on April 14-15 in the cinema hall of the National Gallery of
Armenia on the occasion of world cinematography legend Charles Spencer
Chaplin’s birthday on April 16. Silent films created in the countries
of the region will be shown at the festival. Show of films dedicated
to Chaplin will be organized at the "Moskva" (Moscow) cinema as well.
As Melik Karapetian, an employee of the education department of the
National Gallery of Armenia mentioned in the interview to the Noyan
Tapan correspondent, show of films dedicated to Chaplin’s birthday is
already for the 5th time organized in Yerevan. Those were held during
the first two years in the Yerevan Khnko Aper Children’s Library
and were entitled "Chaplin Marathon" but already in the last year a
regional festival of silent films was for the first time organized
at the National Gallery.