Aghet – Ein Völkermord

Aghet – Ein Völkermord
Written byEric Friedler [de]
Directed byEric Friedler [de]
Music by
  • Michael Klaukien
  • Andreas Lonardoni
Country of originGermany
Original languageGerman
Production
ProducerKatharina M. Trebitsch
Running time90 minutes
Original release
Release9 April 2010 (2010-04-09)

Aghet – Ein Völkermord (English: Aghet – A Genocide; Aghet being Armenian for "catastrophe")[1] is a 2010 German documentary film on the Armenian genocide by the Young Turk government of the Ottoman Empire during World War I. It is based on eyewitness reports by European and American personnel stationed in the Near East at the time, Armenian survivors and other contemporary witnesses which are recited by modern German actors. The visual material partly consists of secretly shot photographs of the death marches, Turkish atrocities and suffering of the Armenian deportees.

Aghet – Ein Völkermord was awarded the 2010 Deutscher Fernsehpreis[2] and the 2011 Grimme Award,[3] two of the most prestigious awards of German television. According to its director, German journalist Eric Friedler [de], the documentary was presented to many members of the US Congress and US Senate who have expressed astonishment on how well documented the genocide actually is.[4] An official presentation at Capitol Hill took place in July 2010.[4]

Aghet won the 2010 Armin T. Wegner Humanitarian Award in Los Angeles and received international recognition on the Montreal World Film Festival the same year.[1] It was set to be shown before large audiences at Harvard and Columbia University.[1] The documentary has been praised for introducing "Aghet", the Armenian term for the Turkish massacres, to an international audience.[1]

The advocacy group of the Turkish community in Germany has protested against the film.[5]

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References

  1. ^ a b c d e NDR. "Eric Friedler wird für "Aghet" mit "Armin T. Wegner Humanitarian Award" in Los Angeles ausgezeichnet". www.ndr.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-09-19.
  2. ^ Fernsehpreis, Der Deutsche. "Home". Deutscher Fernsehpreis 2023 (in German). Retrieved 2023-09-19.
  3. ^ a b "Grimme-Institut - Grimme-Institut". www.grimme-institut.de. Retrieved 2023-09-19.
  4. ^ a b GmbH, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (2023-09-19). "Aktuelle Nachrichten online". FAZ.NET (in German). Retrieved 2023-09-19.
  5. ^ Hürriyet: "Afete" karşı tepki seli Archived 2011-10-06 at the Wayback Machine (in Turkish), retrieved 2011-05-13
  6. ^ "Home". deutscherfernsehpreis.de. Archived from the original on 2010-10-14.
  7. ^ NDR: Zweimal Gold, einmal Silber für NDR Dokumentationen beim New York Filmfestival