Yerevan/Mediamax/. The Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute has unveiled the first official trailer of the documentary recounting the story of Aurora Mardiganian and the first Armenian Genocide movie shot in Hollywood in 1918 based on her memoirs.
“Aurora” movie is about Arshaluys Mardikyan (later Aurora Mardiganian), an Armenian girl who survived the Armenian Genocide. She was 14 when in summer of 1915 the wave of massacres and deportation also reached the province of Kharberd where her birthplace – Chmshkatsag village – was located. Surviving the massacres and going through all the horrors of the Armenian Genocide Arshaluys moved to Tiflis, then to Petrograd. She then moved to Norway and following it, to New York, U.S.
It’s where she started to put down the story of her life which drew the public attention in the U.S. Later “Ravished Armenia” book presenting the memoirs of Aurora Mardiganian was published. The book prompted a huge response among Americans and an idea to shoot a Hollywood movie recounting this story occurred.
Aurora Mardiganian herself played the main role in “Ravished Armenia” movie (also known as “Auction of Souls”).
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