Alter Ego

January. 01,2016      
Rating:
8
Trailer Synopsis Cast

A film about the great Komitas, one of the victims of the Armenian Genocide, who wasn't killed, but went crazy and kept silence for 20 years

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Reviews

ShangLuda
2016/01/01

Admirable film.

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Dotbankey
2016/01/02

A lot of fun.

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Voxitype
2016/01/03

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

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Marva
2016/01/04

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

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