The Lark Farm
Appearance
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La masseria delle allodole | |
Directed by | Paolo and Vittorio Taviani |
Screenplay by | Antonia Arslan |
Starring | Paz Vega Moritz Bleibtreu Alessandro Preziosi |
Cinematography | Giuseppe Lanci |
Edited by | Roberto Perpignani |
Music by | Giuliano Taviani |
Release date |
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Running time | 122 minutes |
Country | Italy |
Budget | €10 million |
The Lark Farm (
drama film directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani about the Armenian genocide
.
Plot
The story, drawn from La masseria delle allodole, the best-selling novel by
landowner Aram, who resides in Turkey, and Assadour, a physician living in Venice. These illusions come crashing down when a Turkish military regiment crops up at the house, annihilates every male member of the family and forces the ladies to trek off into the Syrian desert, where they will be left to rot. With them goes one of the little boys of the family, who was dressed as a girl in order not to be killed. Along the journey, the Turks continue to commit horrible atrocities, including forcing an Armenian mother to crush her newborn baby son to death. Meanwhile, a handsome Turkish officer (Moritz Bleibtreu
) falls in love with Aram's daughter and makes an aggressive attempt to deliver her from certain death, even as the circumstances surrounding him attest to the astounding difficulty of doing so. Upon being given orders to burn the women alive, he chooses to behead her.
Cast
- Paz Vega as Nunik
- Moritz Bleibtreu as young officer
- Alessandro Preziosi as Egon
- Ángela Molina as Ismene
- Arsinée Khanjian as Armineh Avakian
- Mohammed Bakrias Nazim
- Tchéky Karyo as Aram Avakian
- Mariano Rigillo as Assadour
- Hristo Shopov as Isman
- Hristo Zhivkovas Sarkis
- André Dussollier as Col. Arkan
- Yvonne Sciò as Livia
See also
External links
- The Lark Farm at IMDb
- The Lark Farm at Rotten Tomatoes