Rafael Atoyan

Historia

Rafael Geghami Atoyan was an Armenian painter and actor. Rafael Atoyan was born in 1931 . on January 31 in Leninakan . 1944 - 1946 _ studied at Gyumri art school named after Sergey Merkurov , from 1948 to 1953 at the Fine Arts Academy of Yerevan , from 1954 to 1959 at the Yerevan Art and Theater Institute . Since 1960 , he has been a member of the Union of Artists of Armenia . He was filmed in the films "The Lonely Walnut " (Ohan, 1986 , Hayfilm) and "Karot" (Arakel, 1990 , Hayfilm). He lived in the USA from 1994 until his death.

Películas

Yearning
Yearning
The story took place in 1930s in Soviet Armenia. Arakel Aloyan is a naive peasant who left his homeland in Western Armenia after Armenian genocide of 1915, witnessed his village burnt and women raped. All the efforts of family members to pursue Arakel to accustom himself to a new life in Soviet Armenia are in vain whilst he suffers from nostalgia. After having a vision one sleepless night, Arakel crosses the Soviet-Turkish border, visits his village ("to visit the tombs of my parents, to kiss the remaining walls of our village church"), meets his old Kurdish friends. After returning back, he's captured by NKVD (Soviet state security) being accused of "spying against the nation" and tragically ends his life in the exile train to Siberia.