Don Askarian Interview by Silvie Reichel _German

Don Askarian Interview by Silvie Reichel _German
Int.Film Fest.Rotterdam named Don Askarian: King of Cinema
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"Dali, Tarkovski, Bunuel, Deren ... Add Askarian to the ranks of this dream team. he is capable of producing images that are unlike anything ever seen beforeJapan Times . Don Askarian is a prize-winner at several int. film fests. European TVs are constant buyers of his films sold world wide about 100 times. Honoured with a Harvard Film Archive retro, he is considered the greatest Armenian filmmaker (he is Russian-German- Dutch too). 2004 he received Golden Camera Award for Life Achievement at Int. ART Film Festival, Slovakia. H.-W. Dannowski, president of Interfilm: "Time will pass until we recognize that Don Askarian is one of the most important filmmakers of our times"
Don Askarian
is a prize-winner at several international film festivals. In 1996 Don Askarian published his book "The Dangerous Light". Every year the interest to his really very unique films grow up. More and more film festivals come to honor Don Askarian with retrospectives. Serious TV-stations like ARD, WDR, ZDF, Channel 4, Arte, but also Belgian, Greek, Swiss, Slovakian, Armenian etc. TV Channels are constant co-producers and buyers of all his films. The films of Don Askarian were sold and broadcasted world wide about 100 times. Don Askarian, honored with a Harvard Film Archive retrospective, is considered the greatest Armenian filmmaker (but he is Russian-German- Dutch too). In 2004 he received Golden Camera Award for Life Achievement at Int. ART Film Festival, Slovakia. It turns out to be clearer what Hans-Werner Dannowski, the president of Interfilm, meant in 1992: "Time will pass until we recognize that Don Askarian is one of the most important filmmakers of our times. His movies will take up the time they need. Finally the films will have their success not with lies and assimilations but with truth." The retrospectives and special screenings around the world, on TV and important film festivals reflect it, mirror the growing interest in Don Askarian's films followed by a broad fascination by the audience.
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