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