Private Project

TRACES OF WAR Scenes of everyday life in a non-existent country

A choir making the cold visible…
Girls climbing the mountain on a foggy morning to go to school…
Boys chopping wood to heat the school…
Tanks and armored troop carriers used as a blackboard…
Young men serve in the Army of a non-existent country.
And…
Young women dance the past and the future of their land which surely exists.

  • Jana Richter
    Director
  • Jana Richter, David Safarian
    Writer
  • David Safarian
    Producer
  • Family Melkonyan
    Key Cast
  • Family Makaryan
    Key Cast
  • Alexander Heinze
    Sounddesign
  • Voices of Artsakh
    Music
  • Hamlet Balasanyan 

    Production Manager
  • Levon Kesaplyan 

    Production Assistent
  • Yana Drouz 

    Dramaturgy Advisor
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    55 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    January 15, 2015
  • Country of Origin:
    Armenia
  • Country of Filming:
    Armenia
  • Language:
    Armenian
  • Shooting Format:
    HDV
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes
  • BEELD VOOR BEELD 2015, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Amsterdam
    Netherlands
    February 14, 2015
    World Premiere
  • "Golden Apricot" Yerevan International Film Festival 2015, Yerevan, Armenia
    Yerevan
    Armenia
    July 15, 2016
    National Premiere
  • "Cine Invisible" Festival Internacional Film Sozialak 2015, Bilbao, Spain
    Bilbao
    Spain
    October 17, 2015
    Spanish Premiere
  • "Atlantidoc" Festival Internacional de Cine Documental 2015, Montevideo, Uruguay
    Montevideo
    Uruguay
    December 13, 2015
    South American Premiere
    BEST MEDIUM LENGTH DOCUMENTARY
  • "ETNOFILm" 8th Ethnographic Film Festival 2016, Rovijn, Croatia
    Rovijn
    Croatia
    April 29, 2016
    Croatian Premiere
    Best Film made by Non-Anthropologists/Ethnologists
  • "Ethnocineca", International Documentary Film Festival 2016, Vienna, Austria
    Vienna
    Austria
    May 19, 2016
    Austrian Premiere
  • 30th Pärnu International Documentary and Anthropology Film Festival
    Pärnu
    Estonia
    July 2016
    Estonian Premiere
  • 25th International Festival of Ethnological Film
    Belgrade
    Serbia
    October 15, 2016
    Serbian Premiere
  • Days of Ethongraphic Film 2017
    Ljubljana
    Slovenia
    March 3, 2017
    Slovenian Premiere
Director Biography - Jana Richter

born in 1978 in Magdeburg, Germany
2009 graduated from Film and Television Department at the University of Arts in Kassel (Prof. Yana Drouz, Prof. David Safarian)
2010 founded RICHTER PRODUCTION and realized films in Argentina, Bolivia, Cuba, Mongolia, Germany
Member of NUR film group

Filmography (Documentaries):

2015 TRACES OF WAR, 55 min, Nagorno Karabakh
2014 RISING, 7.20 min, Germany
2012 THE GREATNESS OF MAN, 30 min, Cuba
2010 CHOLITA LIBRE: If you don't fight, you've already lost, 70 min, Bolivia
2009 GAUCHOS: If you don't get on, you won't fall off, 85 min, Argentina

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