SYNOPSIS
The film is a story about the unique place which is Nagorno-Karabakh, a country that is not formally recognized by the international community and has been in a state of armed ceasefire in the ongoing war of Armenia with Azerbaijan for years. The film is a portrait of the Armenian community in Nagorno-Karabakh, which lives in the shadow of war, where on the one hand ordinary people desperately seek normality, and on the other hand they display extraordinary patriotism and fight with weapons in both young boys and old men as soon as danger arises. It is the clash of two worlds: Armenia, the oldest Christian country with Muslim Azerbaijan.
CAST & CREW
Jadwiga Nowakowska
Director
Script
Jadwiga Nowakowska
Director of Photography
Tigran Mankikyan, Harutyun Vardanyan, Artur Tsatinyan
Music by
Michal Lorenc
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Jadwiga Nowakowska
Polish journalist, director of documentary films. She graduated from the Faculty of History (1981) and the Faculty of Journalism (1984) of the Jagiellonian University, Cracow of Poland. Since 1989, Jadwiga Nowakowska has been working at TVP1 (The Public Television channel owned by Telewizja Polska S.A.). From 2006 till 2009, she acted as the Head and the Deputy Head of the Documentary Films Editorial Department of the Polish Television.
Filmography
The Polish Dynasties (1991-95), The Evident Inevident (1996-99), The Children of Different Gods (2000), The Action (1992), Vistula (1992), May the Alive Ones Do Not Lose Hope (1997), Survive to Tell the Truth (2006), The Poles in Siberia (2004), Because It’s Worth (2004), The Memory of Uprising (2004), The Underground City (2007), The Closet of Two Nations (2014), A Country of War and Dreams (2018).