Amerikatsi (2022)

Original title

Ամերիկացի

Directed by

Michael A. Goorjian

Genre

drama film

Country

Armenia

Runtime

1h 56m

Rated

14

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 32 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An Armenian-American man moves to Soviet Armenia after World War Two. He is arrested and put in a Soviet prison where he observes life outside from his cell.

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What happens

Amerikatsi (Armenian: Ամերիկացի, romanized: Amerikats'i) is a 2022 Armenian comedy-drama film written, edited, directed by, and starring Michael A. Goorjian. The film is about an Armenian-American who repatriates to the Armenian SSR after World War II and ends up in a Soviet prison. The film premiered at Woodstock Film Festival in 2022, winning the Best Narrative Feature award. It received positive reviews. Armenian Film Society held an additional premiere for the film at its 2023 Armenian Film Festival in Glendale, California. It was also selected as the Armenian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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