AURORA'S SUNRISE

By Inna SAHAKYAN

BARS MEDIA - as PROD

Animation - Production 2021

She is…a best-selling author... a Hollywood sensation... a teenage survivor of Armenian genocide. She is Aurora Mardiganian, the girl who brought her people’s tragedy to the world.

    • Year of production
    • 2021
    • Genres
    • Animation, Historical, Documentary
    • Countries
    • ARMENIA, GERMANY, LITHUANIA
    • Languages
    • ARMENIAN, ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 90 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Inna SAHAKYAN
    • Producer(s)
    • Vardan HOVHANNISYAN (BARS MEDIA FILMS), Christian BEETZ (GEBRUEDER BEETZ FILMPRODUKTION BERLIN), Juste MICHAILINAITĖ (ARTBOX)
    • Synopsis
    • Docu-animation about Aurora Mardiganyan, a Hollywood sensation of the silent film made in 1919, a survivor of the Armenian genocide, escaped from 3 harems and 2 years of nightmare… A girl, who was strong enough to re-live her pain on screen, only in order to help her people… The film where she stared, helped Near East Relief in US to raise more than 30 millions US dollars and save the lives of 1,000,000 refugees. This film reviles the story of Aurora with a unique mix of surviving segments of 1919 silent film, animation and exclusive interview…