by Iotis Erlewine
synopsis
In this biographical drama, Samuel Ovasapian plays the Armenian monk and musician Komitas (1869-1935). A gifted teacher, Komitas was devastated after the tragic massacre that killed 75% of the Armenian population. The event so disturbed Komitas that he spent the last 20 years of his life in mental institutions.
characteristics
- Nervous-breakdown
- Teacher
- Teaching
- Music
- Monk
- Insanity
- Lunacy
- Mental-illness
- Berserk
