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Amerikatsi (2022)

Drama | 121 minutes
3,25 16 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 121 minuten

Alternative title: Ամերիկական

Country: Armenia

Directed by: Michael A. Goorjian

Stars: Michael A. Goorjian, Hovik Keuchkerian and Nelly Uvarova

IMDb score: 7,3 (3.417)

Releasedate: 21 July 2022

Amerikatsi plot

As a boy, Charlie escapes the Armenian genocide by fleeing to the United States. However, when he returns as an adult, he is arrested. From his prison cell he watches an Armenian couple, through which he finally learns more about his homeland.

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After World War II, Joseph Stalin pays a compensation to survivors of the Armenian Genocide to allow them to return to their homeland, which at the time was part of the Soviet Union. Charlie Bakchinyan [Michael A. Goorjian], who ended up in the US as a child in 1915, decides to take advantage of this. He rescues Vanya [Greg Ganoyan], the son of Russian officer Dmitry Petrov [Mikhail Trukhin], but because he does not understand Russian or Armenian, he is sentenced to 10 years in a penal colony in Siberia due to a series of misunderstandings. The prison where he is awaiting his transport is hit by an earthquake, so Charlie is put to work there. He keeps morale up by peering over the crumbling wall into the family life of Tigran [Hovik Keuchkerian], an Armenian painter who works as a camp guard to avoid the penal colony. The screenplay references Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator, Buster Keaton's The Scarecrow and Jacques Tati's Playtime, but the story is mainly a mix of Rear Window and La Vita È Bella, with an unexpressive protagonist. Goorjian's underlying message is hopeful, and Keuchkerian and Grigoryan (as Tigran's wife) deliver a fine piece of pantomime. Bakhchinyan's comic timing is erratic.

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Fisico

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I missed this one in the cinema, but in retrospect maybe not so bad. Expectations were quite high, but all in all I found it only mediocre. Quite long drawn out, which mainly caused the necessary flow to be lacking.

Yes, indeed, you get a kind of Rear Window feeling with that voyeurism. Also some lightness with that humorous approach, but I would have preferred it to be rawer.

And the history of the Armenian population is also more the context, but not more than that. All in all still entertaining, but it is certainly not a top.

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