1489 (2023)

Directed by

Shoghakat Vardanyan

Genre

documentary film

Country

Armenia

Runtime

1h 16m

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A filmmaker documents her family's ordeal as they search for her brother who went missing during a war. The film shows the long wait and the painful process of identifying his remains.

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What happens

1489 is an Armenian war documentary film directed by Shoghakat Vardanyan. The film focuses on the director's personal experience as she and her family cope with the disappearance of her brother, Soghomon Vardanyan, during the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The title "1489" refers to the number assigned to Soghomon's unidentified remains, symbolizing the many soldiers who perished in the conflict and whose bodies remained nameless. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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