1915

Synopsis: In 2015, exactly 100 years after the Armenian Genocide, a theatre director (Simon) is staging a play at the Los Angeles Theatre to honor the victims of that tragedy -- a horrifying crime forgotten and denied for an entire century. But as protesters surround his theatre, and a series of mysterious accidents spread panic among his actors, we realize that Simon's mission is more controversial than we think -- and the ghosts of the past are everywhere.

Genre: Drama

Director(s): Garin Hovannisian, Alec Mouhibian

Actors: Simon Abkarian, Angela Sarafyan, Sam Page, Nikolai Kinski

Production: Bloodvine Media


IMDB:: 4.8
Rotten Tomatoes:: 40%

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Year:: 2015
: 82 min
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1
Ladies and gentlemen, we
are gathered here to stage a play.
This will not be
an ordinary performance.
It is not fiction.
Our story actually happened,
a long time ago.
Tonight, on this stage...
we will tell the forgotten
story of 1915.
100 years ago,
in these very hours...
a great crime was commenced.
An entire people
vanished from the face of the earth.
Their ancient homeland
was erased.
Their churches dismantled.
Even the memory of their existence wiped
clean, and the crime covered up, forever.
We want justice!
We want justice! We want justice!
The sound
of Armenians, millions of them...
marching in cities
all across the world...
to demand a justice for a crime
that took place a century ago.
A million
and a half people slaughtered...
in the scorching deserts!
And the perpetrators
never punished!
Turkey cannot escape
the past any more!
Denial ends today! Denial ends
today! Denial ends today!
Do you feel this old theater
waking up around us?
Does that make you nervous?
It only pleases me.
The truth is that we're not really staging
a play here, we're staging a funeral...
a service for the unrecognized
ghosts of an entire nation.
Crying to be heard.
Begging to be seen.
Tonight on this stage we will create the
bridge between the present and the past.
Time itself will tear open.
And all the ghosts that still
live among us...
will finally go back to 1915.
Sir, you have to leave.
Leave. You get out!
You get out! Get out!
Restrain your woman, soldier!
No! No! No!
Ani!
No! I won't let him go!
You bastard!
May I remind you, soldier,
that the Empire is at war!
But it's not our war.
It's everybody's war now.
The entire world is wearing uniforms.
Isn't that right, soldier?
I said, "Isn't that right,
soldier?"
The colonel is right mother.
The Armenians...
The Armenians...
God damn it!
Sorry, everyone.
Angela, are you okay?
She's bleeding, Simon.
The blood is real.
Of course the blood is real,
James. You did well.
Now, Tony...
I know, I know, I know, I was
supposed to cry.
I was... I was thinking of
Grandma, just like you said.
Her smile.
Her smile?
When you think of Grandma,
remember her smile.
Her smile.
Gabriel, don't look so scared.
You are scared, which is why you
have to hide it, to appear brave.
Yes, sir.
Hey, can we do something about
this hat? It's just way too big.
Yeah, honestly, Simon... must we wear
these awful costumes for rehearsal?
But they're not costumes!
These clothes were worn by the very
Armenians slaughtered in 1915.
They died in these clothes.
Tonight, the fate of the dead
will be in your hands.
Their terror will pound
in your hearts.
At 5:
00 this evening,
you will no longer be actors.
You will bring those forgotten
souls back to life...
or you will die with them.
You've always liked my scars.
My darling wife... they are the
most beautiful parts of you.
Nobody else knows
about the scars.
I know.
Only you care about the scars.
Darling.
Yes, my love?
When will it be over?
Soon, my love, very soon.
I can come up the stairs...
I can be myself again?
I hate the stairs so much.
I know... I know it's hard.
But it's your mind connecting
these two worlds.
You are the secret of this play.
Everything ends tonight?
Everything. Tonight.
And tomorrow?
Tomorrow... we will be free.
God, I hate theater.
What did I do? What did I do to
deserve this?
It must have been
something really bad.
Oh, come on.
You're enjoying this.
Should've listened to your
agent, James.
This is where movie stars
come to die.
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