Sour Grape (1974)
Género : Drama
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 16M
Director : Bagrat Oganesyan
Sinopsis
Two years after receiving news of his father’s death in WWII a young boy continues to wait for trains from the front. The boy lives with his crippled uncle rather than with his mother, who has remarried and has another child. Then one day the father returns.
Basado en el Terremoto de 1988 que azotó al país de Armenia, cuenta la historia de un hombre de familia que tras un viaje al exterior, aterriza en el epicentro de la desastre, encontrando su ciudad natal devastada. Pronto, tendrá que encontrar a su familia.
Basado en hechos reales
Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918). En una pequeña ciudad turca, la guerra y las persecuciones contra la minoría armenia parecen muy lejanas. Después de haber emigrado a Italia, el hijo mayor de una familia armenia, intenta volver a su casa para reunirse con los suyos. Los esfuerzos de su familia por darle una calurosa bienvenida se ven truncados al intervenir Turquía en la guerra. Comienza entonces el éxodo armenio, una odisea marcada por el hambre, la sed y la voluntad desesperada de las mujeres de esta familia por salvarse de la muerte y de la indignidad
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