Mediamax presents 100 Seconds project devoted to Armenian Genocide Centennial. The project is based on testimonies of Genocide survivors published by the National Archive of Armenia.

Marco Mueller is a film producer. He was Artistic Director of the Rotterdam International Film Festival, Locarno International Film Festival, Venice International Film Festival (Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica). Marco Mueller has been awarded a number of prizes for his contribution to the film industry. In February 2015 Marco Mueller has been appointed chief adviser to the Beijing Film Festival.

For 100 seconds project Marco Mueller reads an extract from Armenian Genocide survivor Gohar Sarian's testimony.

National Archives of Armenia

Collection of Documents

Testimony of Survivor Gohar Sarian on the Massacres of Trabzon (extract)

[1916]

Tiflis

Many women and girls took poison when the policeman came to their houses to deport them.

Khachik Aslanian threw himself out of the window and died. Karapet Mnatsakanian killed himself with a knife. The wife of an Armenian man, a Bulgarian by origin, cut her neck with a razor. The father of Gurgen Sargisian set his house alight and burned it, but died under the heels of the policemen. Gurgen himself was hiding in our house and after 15 days came out in woman’s dress but fell into the hands of the police.

Sedrak from Sheyran hid in the ceiling of the house for a month but was then revealed and surrounded by the policemen. He fought for an hour but was killed wounding a policeman.

Producer: Ara Tadevosyan

Filming: Lena Gevorgyan, Mariam Loretsyan

Post Production: Tumo LLC

The source of Gohar Sarian’s testimony: National Archives of Armenia, Armenian Genocide by Ottoman Turkey, 1915, Testimony of survivors, Collection of documents, Yerevan-2013.

VivaCell-MTS is the general partner of 100 seconds project.