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Stories Set in Armenia
Pomegranate poets, Ararat silhouettes, Yerevan courtyards and highland villages — one of the oldest nations tells long-memory stories. Start with these ten, then open Armenia on StoryTerra's map.
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Browse 5 books and 14 movies set in Armenia.

The Color of Pomegranates
The life of the revered 18th-century Armenian poet and musician Sayat-Nova. Portraying events in the life of the artist from childhood up to his death the movie addresses in particular his relationships with women…

The Legion
Noreno a half-Roman is entrusted with the mission of crossing the snowy mountains of Armenia swarming with Parthian patrols to seek help for his slowly dying men.

The Earthquake
After the devastating Spitak earthquake of December 7th Konstantin Berezhnoy a 50-year-old Russian and Robert Melkonyan a 28-year-old Armenian work together to rescue the desperate survivors.

Hotel Gagarin
An highly heterogeneous group of people go to Armenia to make a movie all ignoring what will happen to each of them.

Ararat
Interrogated by a customs officer a young man recounts how his life was changed during the making of a film about the Armenian genocide.

Spitak
«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…

Vodka Lemon
In a remote isolated Yazidi Kurdish village in post-Soviet Armenia Hamo a widower with a pitiful pension and three worthless sons travels daily to his wife's grave. There he meets the lovely Nina who is communing with…

The Lighthouse
Lena returns to her home in a remote war-ravaged Armenian village to try and persuade her grandparents to leave with her for safety in Moscow.

The Sandcastle Girls
The Sandcastle Girls is a sweeping historical love story steeped in Chris Bohjalian's Armenian heritage. When Elizabeth Endicott arrives in Aleppo, Syria she has a diploma from Mount Holyoke, a crash course in nursing,…

Architects of Denial
Though both the historical and modern-day persecution of Armenians and other Christians is relatively uncovered in the mainstream media and not on the radar of many average Americans it is a subject that has gotten far…
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