ARMEN JIGARKHANYAN PLAYS IN A NEW FILM ‘VAN GOGH NOT GUILTY ‘
arminfo
2007-08-15 13:23:00
Actor Armen Jigarkhanyan plays in a new picture by Ukrainian film-
director Vera Yakovenko ‘Van Gogh Not Guilty.’
Kiev-based newspaper ‘Khrechatik’ reports the picture was shot by
FAINO-Company. It will be released in autumn. Drama ‘Van Gogh Not
Guilty’ tells about a 45-year-old owner of a furniture factory Danis
Kazantsev. Danis has many friends and hobbies. Unfortunately, when he
occurs in hospital after a car accident and becomes no longer able to
continue his business, his friends leave him. In an interview with
the newspaper, A. Jigarkhanyan says that he agreed to sign on for
production of the picture because ‘the plot was serious and not like
the soap operas’ of the new Russian movies. ‘I am 72 and I am most
of all afraid of being pitied. That is why I do not make plans. I
agree to play in a picture when I am invited to a serious one,’ the
actor says. At the same time he regrets that the only film studio in
his motherland Armenia no longer operates and its fate is unknown,
although one of American Armenians has acquired it.