SPITAK
synopsis
Spitak tells the story of the most devastating and largest (in terms of casualties) Armenian earthquake that happened on December 7, 1988. This day went down in history as the day of a horrible disaster, which claimed the lives of over 25,000 lives and left more than half a million people homeless.
original title: | Spitak |
country: | Armenia, Russia |
year: | 2018 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Alexander Kott |
film run: | 98' |
screenplay: | Marina Sochinskaya |
cast: | Lernik Harutyunyan, Hermine Stepanyan, Alexandra Politic, Oleg Vasilkov, Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Martun Ghevondyan, Olivier Pages, Joséphine Japy, Konstantin Poyarkin, Dmitry Mulyar |
cinematography by: | Pyotr Dukhovskoy |
film editing: | Olga Grinshpun, Nikolay Ryakhovsky |
art director: | Oleg Ukhov |
costumes designer: | Elena Ushakova |
music: | Serg Tankian |
producer: | Tereza Varzhapetian, Elena Glikman |
production: | Telesto-Film (RU) |
backing: | The Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation (RU), The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Armenia (AM), The National cinema center of Armenia (AM), TV Channel RUSSIA-1 (RU), EURIMAGES |