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Mayak (film)

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Mayak
Directed byMariya Saakyan
Written byGivi Shavgulidze
Produced byAnton Melnik
StarringAnna Kapaleva
Olga Yakovleva
Sos Sargsyan
Sofiko Chiaureli
Ruzana Avetisyan
Mikhail Bogdasarov
Anastasiya Grebennikova
CinematographyMaxim Drozdov
Music byKimmo Pohjonen
Distributed byAndreevsky Flag Film Company
Release date
  • 2006 (2006)
Running time
78 min.
CountriesRussia
Armenia
LanguageRussian

Mayak (Russian: Маяк, meaning The Lighthouse) is a 2006 Russian film directed by Mariya Saakyan. Young director Mariya Saakyan made the picture about the war in the Caucasus, but without the war.

Synopsis

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The film is about the war in Armenia from women's point of view. The girl (Lena) from Moscow, rides in a small North-Armenian town, where she was born. Then the war begins. Lena wants to take her grandmother and grandfather out of the town, but having arrived home, she realizes that she has no opportunity to return to Moscow. Lena learns to live in the conditions of war. She realizes that to run away does not mean to escape. The latest frames of the film give us hope that life continues and everything will be fine.

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