Filmmaker Mikhail Vartanov honored in Spain

Armenian Reporter: Filmmaker Mikhail Vartanov honored in Spain

Published: Wednesday February 17, 2010

I Will Wear Your Beret Papa.

Beverly Hills, Calif. – Government of Navarra, Spain, on February 5,
2010, opened a photography exhibition in the memory of the influential
Armenian film director, cinematographer and essayist Mikhail Vartanov
(1937-2009) at the 16th century Condestable Palace in the framework of
Punto de Vista International Documentary Film Festival of Navarra.

I Will Wear Your Beret Papa is the title of the exhibition of black
and white photographs by award-winning filmmaker and photographer
Martiros Vartanov. The photographsfeature Mikhail Vartanov in his
famous beret on the streets of Spain and his meetings there with
Andrei Tarkovsky’s sister, Marina Tarkovskaya, Jean Vigo’s daughter,
the film critic Luce Vigo, and the Russian filmmakers Aleksandr Gordon
and Herz Frank and others.

Photographs were originallytakenduring the Spanish premiere of
Vartanov’s Armenian masterpiece ‘Parajanov: The Last Spring’ which for
the past 18 years holds the record and the distinction for winning the
first and the only Russian Academy of Cinema Arts Award for a film
made in Armenia.
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http:/ /puntodevista.navarra.es

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

http://reporter.am/go/article/2010-02-17-

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS