Nora Armani and Gerald Papasian Honored at Golden Apricot Film Festival

“Last Station” holds a special place in Harutyun Khachatryan’s creative arc. The main characters featured in all of Khatchatryan’s films are wandering artists who have lost their homeland and are looking for a home. They are people whom the director has followed with a camera in his hand during his four-decade creative journey.

The lead characters in “Last Station” are two Diaspora Armenian actors. The film is based on a play they staged, which premiered at the Edinburgh Festival in 1986. Later, the play was performed in many countries. The film tells the story of this itinerant pair who have traveled the world performing a play about their people, as they strive to find their spiritual roots far from their historical homeland.
Nora Armani & Gerald Papasian in “Last Station”

“Last Station” tells the fictionalized story of Egyptian-born actors Armani and Papasian, who travel to Los Angeles in search of their American dream. In the film, the pair, having failed to achieve Hollywood fame, stage a small theatrical performance based on Armenian poetry and begin touring the world. In one of the cities, they are joined by another exiled artist, played by Armen Djigarkhanyan. Soon, the trio reaches the last station, Armenia, where their paths diverge.

Using an epistolary style as the film’s main narrative medium, and blurring the boundaries between documentary and fiction. Enriching the story with Armenian poetry, multi-genre music, and equally poetic urban landscapes, the director has created a film about broken dreams, separation, and, continuing the journey; a film full of longing and warmth.

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