A film about the great Komitas, one of the victims of the Armenian Genocide, who wasn't killed, but went crazy and kept silence for 20 years
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The people behind it
Vardan Mkrtchyan
Edgar
Ani Ghazaryan
Sona
Arto Khachaturian
Komitas
Vache Sharafyan
Areg Gevorgyan
Areg
Grafser
Vigen Chaldranyan
Sergey Sargsyan
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