Help our children to remember our history!
The “Land of Nairi” that’s the way Armenia was referred to as in an ancient Assyrian legends. That is the territory where Armenian ethnos and the first Armenian state took shape, and having passed through the centuries full of hardships and ordeals, it withstood the test of time, carried the day, and is making its way today.
The way that is full of victories, failures, and tragic events. Indeed one may wonder is it possible that all these events made the chapters of the history of one nation. A book of history that could either remains unread, or not called for. As the learned elders of East told - what we know about our past, in order to be able to move forward in right direction?
The author of the video tries to find answers to these questions, and sets out on the journey from the modern capital Yerevan, passing through the ancient fortresses, places of kings, and mountainside of the bible mountain Ararat, where according to the Old Testament, Noah landed the Ark.
The road is full of meetings with people, which have their own histories intermingled with the past and present of the nation, and above of all that undergone to cruel suffering and has never been condemned by anyone in the history of civilization.
The land is as old as the earth and is as new as the new millennium. However, along with the thoughts on all the issues, the film is not the lesson on history, but the road full of live meetings with workmen, trades people, cooks, musicians, and common people, and depicts vividly the way of their life, habits and customs.
The film has been shot during the period of 19 months, passes through all seasons, depicts gorgeous sceneries of nature, magnificent architectural masterpieces of the cities today and ancient remains of past, both ravishing and attracting today.