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Michael Goorjian on Bringing Modern Armenian Stories to the Big Screen

By Film Threat Staff | November 2022

In Amerikatsi, it’s 1947, and an Armenian-American repatriates to Armenia only to end up in a Soviet prison. Hopeless and alone, he…

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