Today, in the framework of the “Golden Apricot” film festival, a meeting with the famous German film director Margarethe von Trotta was held in the “Moscow” cinema. The event is also supported by the German Embassy in Armenia and the Institute after Goethe. During the meeting the film director’s “Hannah Arendt” film was shown. The Program Director of “Golden Apricot” Michael Stamboltsyan, introducing Margarethe von Trotta, emphasized the revolutionary power of her arts in German cinema, then he said that all her heroes are rebelling women, and if in the 19th century, women were trying to be liberated from the triangle (children, kitchen, church) that men had introduced, Margarethe von Trotta was trying to change the world, grudgingly a film director who has a tattoo of shooting historical films. “We are accustomed that women are on the other side of the camera, where they pose, until recently, we were surprised at women film directors.
In the 21st century, the number of women film directors is gradually growing, and there is a great deal of Margarethe von Trotta here,”,- said Mr. Stamboltsyan. “Golden Apricot” film festival founder and president Harutyun Khachatrayn lovingly presented a Parajanov taler to the famous film director, noting that she is the most deserved. Margarethe von Trotta told that one of her friends donated a book “The Forty Days of Mount Musa”, and has said that Franz Werfel has the status of a hero in Armenia. “After reading this exciting book about the genocide, I had a great desire to come to Armenia. And as if a miracle was performed. I was deep in my thoughts when I received an invitation from Harutyun Khachatryan, with which I am happy”,- said renowned filmmaker. As for receiving Parajanov talers, she added that a few days ago she has visited the Parajanov Museum, has admired and ‘met’ there the original of talers. “The world’s greatest evil is the one that are acted by “nobody”s, it is the evil that is operated by people who do not have motives and beliefs, who do not have a bad heart, nor a divine desires, they are just people who refuse to be a person”,- says a German Jewish descent Hannah Arendt in the film.
On April 1961, she left for Jerusalem from New York deportation to cover Adolf Aikman’s trial for the “New York”. Arendt’s articles were frustrating to many, it is qualified as even the “Nazi whore” because, unlike everyone else, she considers Aikman not a monster, but a murderer who just tried to make good on the task assigned to him, therefore he does not have a sense of guilt. Although the former colleagues and friends turn their backs to Arendt’s face, anyway she does not change her opinion. It’s hard to be a strong woman, but the ability to thinking gives her strength.
Gohar HAKOBYAN
