- Ravished Armenia
Infobox Film
name = Ravished Armenia
caption = Promotional poster for the film "Ravished Armenia" deletable image-caption
director =Oscar Apfel
producer =William Nicholas Selig
writer =Harvey Gates Aurora Mardiganian Nora Waln
starring =Aurora Mardiganian Irvin Cummings Anna Q. Nilsson Henry Morgenthau Lillian West
distributor =First National Pictures
released = flagicon|USAJanuary 19 ,1919
language = English
amg_id =
imdb_id = 09892"Ravished Armenia" is the title of both a
book written in 1918 by Arshalouis (Aurora) Mardiganian about her experiences in theArmenian Genocide and theHollywood film based on it that was filmed in 1919. According to a contemporaryNew York Times article, the first half of the film shows "Armenia as it was before Turkish and German devastation, and led up to the deportation of priests and thousands of families into the desert. One of the concluding scenes showed young Armenian women flogged for their refusal to enter Turkish harems and depicted the Turkish slave markets." [ [http://www.cilicia.com/armo10c-nyt19190215.html 'RAVISHED ARMENIA' IN FILM] ] All known complete copies of the film have since been lost, but Mardiganian's account is still in print. [ [http://www.armenian-genocide.org/Education.21/current_category.121/resourceguide_detail.html Armenian National Institute Article] ]References
ee also
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The Forty Days of Musa Dagh
*Henry Morgenthau, Sr. External links
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