THE "TARGET" – NATIONAL VALUES AND HUMAN EMOTIONS
By Hasmik Haroutiunian
AZG Armenian Daily
21/05/2008
Culture
"I remember, the audience kept silence after the premiere of the
film. Then one of the soldiers approached me, shook my hand and said,
"Thank you. Now I understood for what I fought". These words were the
best appraisal of my film", says film-director Shavarsh Vardanian,
who is one of the active participants of 1988 movement. He made films
of Khodzalu, Shahumian and Shushi liberation battles during Artsakh
war to tell the future generations about the heroism and victorious
spirit of the Armenian people.
"The others took up arms to go to war; my weapon was my camera".
In "Tirakh" (Target) film shot in 2000 Shavarsh Vardanian comments on
the struggle for existence in Artsakh with the eyes of documentalist
and a man who took part in the war.
It seems that the film is an autobiography but in the background we
see the battle-field, the disaster of the war and the marriage of
the hero as a call of new life at the end of the film.