Famous rock musician, producer and director Stas Namin, who is in Armenia to take part in the “Golden Apricot”, told reporters that he is going to shoot a film about his grandfather, Anastas Mikoyan.
“He was an influential person both in Armenia and in Russia. In Armenia he was influential, because he was an Armenian, and in Russia because he spoke Russian with Armenian accent”, said the artist smiling. He also noted that he wants to shoot a film based on documentaries, not only on the memories of his relatives, who may tell only nice episodes.
He also talked about another film about Gorbachev’s meeting with Reagan in Reykjavik in 1986, which is titled “Reykjavik”. The director attaches great importance to it for the fact that the meeting marked the end of the “cold war”, which could give birth to evil, if continued. The film is being shooted in the US.
He also touched upon the recent changes in Armenia. “We say “velvet” revolution… it is the expression of the nation’s highest level of civilization, when there was no aggression, no car was broken, even children and women took part, and the government did not want to fight against its people”, said Stas Namin. He also noted that there is a joke in Moscow about it: “Someone says, let us make a velvet revolution like Armenians, and the other responds, we cannot like Armenians as we do not have that many Armenians here”.
Namin advised Nikol Pashinyan to be careful, saying that people whom he pursues for robbing the people may like it. “The revolution took place, but building a country is more important, which is complicated and full of conflicts. It is necessary to nationalize the property taken from individuals, which is risky. Pashinyan should realize the risk factor”.
Gohar HAKOBYAN
