52′, directed by Jean-Pierre Carlon.
Co-produced by France Télévisions and EJH Productions.
With the support of the CNC, the PACA region, the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah, the ACSÉ, the city of Marseille and the General Council of Bouches-du-Rhône.
Selected for FIPATEL 2013.
“I’ve dreamt of Armenia” oscillates between the memory and the future. Whether their names are Jacques Ouloussian, Gilbert Léonian or Stephan Indjeyan, their common capital is Armenianness, a breath that tries to find a balance between a painful history and its projection into the future.
The film translates this duality that inhabits them, between the concern to preserve their culture damaged by the loss of their historical homeland and their desire to integrate into their host country. Today they are 100% French, but if they still dream of a lost Armenia, very few return to settle there. With Ovsanna Kaloustian, a 105 year old survivor of the genocide, we relive this terrible tragedy that struck a whole people. Sathenik Haroutunian, for her part, keeps in mind her return to Armenia under the Soviet regime in 1947. But the history of the Armenian diaspora is also the more recent one of the revolt and the support of a youth to the armed struggle for the recognition of the genocide of 1915 and the plundering of the lands stolen from the Armenians. It is the attachment of a people, scattered throughout the world, to this last small piece of land of Armenia endangered by the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with Azerbaijan. A war that Robert Salapian, Stephan Indjeyan and Ara Toranian, editor-in-chief of “Nouvelles d’Arménie”, bring to life.
The media hype around the bill introduced by Valérie Boyer, the outcry it has provoked from certain historians, the pressure exerted by Ankara and the Turkish community in France, allow us to measure the path to be taken for justice to be finally rendered to the Armenians.
DVD edition by Les Productions du Lagon and ClapOsud.
This double DVD set includes the 52-minute documentary and 2 hours and 54 minutes of unpublished bonuses, on various themes.