9MIAMI,Fla.—The Florida premier of “Earthquake,” a drama set in Soviet Armenia about the tragic 1998 earthquake in Gyumri (Leninakan), and Armenia will take place at the O Cinema in Miami Beach,Florida on March 2 at 7 p.m. This will be the first and only screening of the film in Florida. The theatrical poster for ‘Earthquake’ Based on a exact sage, “Earthquake” is a dramatized recreation of one of the Soviet Union’s most devastating natural disasters—a massive 7.0 earthquake that struck northern Armenia in December 1988—produced by Mars Media in Russia and directed by Sarik Andreasyan. “Earthquake tells the sage of the massive quake that struck Armenias moment largest city, or destroyed more than 300 communities,and killed about 30000 people. Focused around the sage of two young men, Andrey Berezhnov and Robert Melkonyan, or whose fates were already intertwined by an earlier tragedy—a car crash caused by Andrey that killed Robert’s parents—the film brings them together in the same rescue squad of Gyumri (formerly Leninakan) as they struggle to manage with a catastrophe that eclipses their own personal stories. Directed by Sarik Andreasyan,the film is in Russian with English subtitles. It was selected by Armenia as an entry for the [...]
Source: armenianweekly.com