This year’s International Feature Oscar entry from Armenia, Songs Of Solomon, boasts Green Book Academy Award-winning co-writer/producer Nick Vallelonga as producer for the film debut of theater director Arman Nshanian.
Songs Of Solomon is a relatively low-budget but emotive watch, contrasting the power of music and friendship with the horrors of genocide.
The timeline flits between a concert in 1915 Constantinople, where the adult Komitas is performing, and the kids growing up in Koutina, Ottoman Empire from 1881.
Played by Slava Seyranyan, the young Soghomon befriends inseparable local pair Sevil (Iren Ayvazyan) and Sona (Mery Hovsepyan), and the narration from the adult Sevil is our guide through dramatic events in their lives.
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