Nahapet

Nahapet Armenian is a 1977 Armenian film about a man who tries to rebuild his life after losing his wife and child in the Armenian genocide. It is based on a novel written by Hrachya Kochar. The film has been cited as an example of the portrayal of genocide in the film industry. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section of the 1978 Cannes Film Festival.

Left for dead, Nahapet is able to make his way to a bleak and cold village in Aragats filmed in Dian, Talin, a part of the new state of Soviet Armenia. He is filled with grief and feels unable to move on. With encouragement from his brotherinlaw and friend Apro Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Nahapet reluctantly begins a new relationship with a woman named Noubar Sofik Sarkisyan. But the pair are estranged from one another from the start and the scenes from the film show candid but silent moments of the two attempting to find ways to build a new lives and trying to survive with what little they have. They plant trees and labour intensively to build a house despite the harsh weather conditions of the region.Nahapet and Noubar gradually realise that their survival and future is linked and both now come to the aid of one another. She reveals to Nahapet that she is pregnant. As Nahapet is working outside one day he hears the wailing of a newborn and rushes to his homes wooden door, collapsing on it with the tears and with the full realisation that building a new future after suffering such deprivations in life is possible. The film ends with him and the other villagers walking with their children as they all take a pledge to plant a new apple tree for each child born in the village. ........

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