SOLUTIONS for Booth 7
Film Exhibition

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This exercise said: "Arutyun Khatchatryan, Mikael Dovlatyan, Suren Babayan, Atom Egoyan. These are just four of many Armenian film directors. The Film Ehibition booth will show a sample of Amenian cinema from around the world. "

Task: Visit the IMDb Internet Movie Database at http://us.imdb.com to find its list of 24 Armenian films and to collect the following information:

a) The title and year of the movie directed by Mikael Dovlatyan.
b) The genre, language and year of Suren Babayan's movie.
c) What movie did Atom Egoyan start shooting in September 1998?
d) The list of movies directed by Arutyun Khatchatryan

Solution: The following information is available at the IMDb Internet Movie Database:

a) Labyrinthe (1995), Litsom k stene (1990)

b) Genre: Sci-Fi, Language: Russian, Year: 1988 (Thirteenth Apostle, The)

c) Felicia's Journey

d)Verchin gayan (1994), meaning Last Station
Kamin Ounaynoutian (1992), meaning The Wind of Emptiness
Veratarts Avedyats Yergir (1992), meaning Return to the Promised Land (1992)
White Town (1989)
Kond (1987)
A Visit with the Commander (1986)
Chronicles of an Event (1985)
Voices from Our Neighbourhood (1981)


Task: Find the URLs of two main Web sites that provide information on Egoyan. One of them contains the profiles of the people he works with. Who is Atom's vision of an "Armenian Princess" and his "sleeping muse"? Send us her photo and tell us more about her.

Solution: A search of Yahoo quickly reveals these URLs:

http://greenwood.simplenet.com/atom.htm
http://www2.cruzio.com/~akreyche/tchkak.html

You can also discover that Egoyan's vision of an "Armenian Princess" and his "sleeping muse" is Arsinée Khanjian. This is the information available on the site -


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Arsinée Khanjian