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Film “Earthquake” to be nominated for Oscar (video)

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The film “Earthquake” will be submitted for the 89th Academy Awards in the best foreign-language film category. Twenty-four members of the Union of Cinematographers of Armenia today chose the movie directed by Russian-based Armenian producer Sarik Andreasyan as a nominee for the 2016 Academy Awards (Oscar). The other two films were Jivan Avetisyan's “The Last Resident” and Davit Safaryan’s “Hot Country, Cold Winter.” The movie is about the devastating 1988 earthquake in Armenia, which claimed several thousand lives. Talking to journalists after the vote, Ruben Gevorgyants, Chairman of the Union of Cinematographers of Armenia, said the “Earthquake” is a shameful and anti-Armenian film which tells how an Armenian takes away a watch from a dead man’s hand during the earthquake and how two Russians save Armenians. “Technically, it is a good movie but its plot is anti-Armenian. The same is true about the movie “The last Resident,” he said. “It is a terrible film, the plot is absurd.” Most of all he liked the film “Hot Country, Cold Winter” though he thinks none of the three is worth to be nominated. “I have participated in Oscar myself and I know the criteria quite well,” he said.