At only 14 years old, Aurora lost everything during the horror of the Armenian genocide. Four years later, through luck and extraordinary courage, she escaped to New York, where her story became a media sensation. Starring as herself in Auction of Souls, an early Hollywood blockbuster, Aurora became the face of one of the largest charity campaigns in American history. With a blend of vivid animation, interviews with Aurora herself, and 18 minutes of surviving footage from her lost silent epic, Aurora's Sunrise revives a forgotten story of survival.
About the film
Details
- Running time
- 1 hr. 36 min.
- Country, year
- Armenia, Lithuania, Germany, 2022
- Genre
- Documentary, Animation
- Language
- Armenian, English, Turkish, Kurdish, German
- Subtitles
- Lithuanian, English
- Age rating
- Pegi 13
Credits
- Director
- Inna Sahakyan
- Screenplay
- Inna Sahakyan, Kerstin Meyer-Beetz, Peter Liakhov
- Producers
- Vardan Hovhannisyan, Justė Michailinaitė, Kęstutis Drazdauskas, Christian Beetz, Eric Esrailian
- Music
- Christine Aufderhaar
- More information
- www.imdb.com
Director
Inna Sahakyan
Inna Sahakyan has directed and produced feature-length documentaries, documentary series, and shorts, for over fifteen years. Following her feature-length debut co-directing the award-winning Armenia’s Last Tightrope Dancer in 2010, she directed Mel and Aurora’s Sunrise, completing both international co-productions in 2022. Inna also enjoys mentoring her native Armenia’s next generation of filmmakers.
