GATE TO HEAVEN

By Jivan AVETISYAN

ARTBOX - as PROD

Drama - Completed 2019

Many years ago, a military journalist, Robert, committed a mean act. Tortured by pangs of conscience, he makes a step towards repentance; it's the path to "Gate to Heaven".

    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • ARMENIA, LITHUANIA, GERMANY, AUSTRIA, ITALY, BULGARIA, CZECH REPUBLIC
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH, GERMAN, ARMENIAN
    • Budget
    • 0.3 - 0.6 M$
    • Duration
    • 90 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Jivan AVETISYAN
    • Writer(s)
    • Artavazd YEGHIAZARYAN, Mko MALKHASYAN
    • Producer(s)
    • Masis BAGHDASARYAN (FISH EYE ART), Kęstutis DRAZDAUSKAS (ARTBOX), Adrineh MIRZAYAN (Artsakh Arts & Cultural Foundation)
    • Synopsis
    • ROBERT STERNVALL (50), a German journalist, returns to Artsakh in 2016 to cover the war which has been reignited after a 22-year ceasefire. In the result of his journalistic investigation, Robert meets SOPHIA MARTI (35), a young opera singer, who happens to be the daughter of missing photojournalist Edgar Martirosyan, whom Robert abandoned in captivity during the fall of the village of Talish in 1992. Robert and Sophia’s frequent rendezvouses ignite a passionate romance... as their romance develops, Robert’s guilty conscience catches up.