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When My Sorrow Died: The Legend of Armen Ra & the Theremin (2014)

Name: When My Sorrow Died: The Legend of Armen Ra & the Theremin
Genre: Documentary, Music
Released: 2019-06-11T14:04:15+02:00
Cast: Armen Ra, Pat Field, Amanda Lepore

Documentary | 85 minutes

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Genre: Documentary / Music

Duration: 85 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Robert Nazar Arjoyan

Stars: Armen Ra, Pat Field, Amanda Lepore

IMDb score: 8,6 (30)

Releasedate: 13 November 2015

This movie is not available on US streaming services.

When My Sorrow Died: The Legend of Armen Ra & the Theremin plot

"The documentary follows Armen’s triumphant return engagement, and ultimately, an expression of beauty and the death of his sorrow."

A stylized look into the life of Armen Ra, the eccentric Iranian theremin player. Ra, the nephew of an opera singer and son of a citizen of the world, grows up in a house full of women. As a result, he enjoys a feminine, artistic and cultural upbringing. During a vacation in the United States, the revolution breaks out in his home country. He is forced to attend school in Boston, where he is severely bullied. He wants to get out of there as soon as possible and moves to New York where he ends up in the drug world. Here, drugs and alcohol eventually take their toll. Then he discovers the theremin.