THE LIGHTHOUSE (12) 2006 RUSSIA SAAKYAN, MARIYA BLU RAY £19.99
This elegiac, semi-autobiographical drama unfolds against the backdrop and legacy of the Caucasus wars of the early 1990s. Told with a dream-like intensity, a young woman returns to her home in a remote, war-ravaged Armenian village to persuade her grandparents to leave with her for safety in Moscow.
In Russian with English subtitles
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS
The Lighthouse (Mayak, 2006) presented from a new 2K restoration by the Hamo Bek-Nazarov Project, approved by the film’s cinematographer Maksim Drozdov
Maria Saakyan’s acclaimed short film Farewell (Proshchanie, 2003)
Surviving Memories: a visual essay by Alessandro Luchetti and Manuela Lazic
Trailers
Booklet featuring an interview with the director, and essays by writer/curator So Mayer and film historian Vigen Galstyan
Region free Blu-ray (A/B/C)
World premiere on Blu-ray
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