Ravished Armenia (1919)
1h 30m
Running Time
January 19, 1919Release Date
Ravished Armenia (1919)
1h 30m
Running Time
January 19, 1919Release Date
Plot.
A Hollywood biographical film about a survivor's experience of the Armenian Genocide. Arshaluys (Aurora) Mardiganian plays herself in the film which is based on her published memoirs. It is thought to be the first film about made about genocide. All known complete copies of the film have been lost. A restored and edited 24-minute segment of the historic motion picture was released in 2009 by the Armenian Genocide Resource Center of Northern California. It is based on a rare surviving reel of film edited in Soviet Armenia.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Aurora Mardiganian
Aurora
Irving Cummings
Andranik
Anna Q. Nilsson
Edith Graham
Henry Morgenthau
U.S. Ambassador Henry Morgenthau
Oscar Apfel
Director
Henry Leyford Gates
Writer
Frederick Chapin
Writer
William Nicholas Selig
Producer
Nora Waln
Screenplay
Lillian West
Actress
Eugenie Besserer
Actress
Henry Morganthau
Howard Davies
Hector Dion
Details.
Release DateJanuary 19, 1919
Original NameAuction of Souls
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 30m
Genres
Wiki.
Ravished Armenia, also known as Auction of Souls, is a 1919 American silent film based on the autobiographical book Ravished Armenia by Arshaluys (Aurora) Mardiganian, who also played the lead role in the film. The film, which depicts the 1915 Armenian genocide by the Ottoman Empire from the point of view of Armenian survivor Mardiganian, who plays herself in the film, survives in an incomplete form.