Filmmaker Mikhail Vartanov honored in Spain

Published: Wednesday February 17, 2010

I Will Wear Your Beret Papa.

Beverly Hills, Calif. - Government of Navarra, Spain, on February 5, 2010, opened a photography exhibition in the memory of the influential Armenian film director, cinematographer and essayist Mikhail Vartanov (1937-2009) at the 16th century Condestable Palace in the framework of Punto de Vista International Documentary Film Festival of Navarra.

I Will Wear Your Beret Papa is the title of the exhibition of black and white photographs by award-winning filmmaker and photographer Martiros Vartanov. The photographs feature Mikhail Vartanov in his famous beret on the streets of Spain and his meetings there with Andrei Tarkovsky's sister, Marina Tarkovskaya, Jean Vigo's daughter, the film critic Luce Vigo, and the Russian filmmakers Aleksandr Gordon and Herz Frank and others.

Photographs were originally taken during the Spanish premiere of Vartanov's Armenian masterpiece 'Parajanov: The Last Spring' which for the past 18 years holds the record and the distinction for winning the first and only Russian Academy of Cinema Arts Award for a film made in Armenia. Russian Academy Award is the most coveted professional cinema honor in the region of the former Soviet countries.

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