Trial (1990)

The mountains of Armenia, Ararat – medium, panorama, departure.

An ancient temple in the mountains – medium, departure.

Burning coals – cri.

Hands rolling out dough – cri.

Armenian women preparing dough, baking lavash bread – medium, cri.

A young woman is standing with ready-made loaves of bread – cri.

The sky, mountains – general, zoom in.

Steps in a mountain – cri. (with movement).

Destruction in Armenia, temple ruins – cri, panorama.

The bell ringer is ringing the bell – cri.

A wall is collapsing (rapid motion) – cri.

Black and white photographs of crying people – cri.

Newsreel from 1988: People are carrying the wounded on stretchers, carrying them out of an airplane, passing by – cri.

A man is carrying an injured child – cri., panorama.

Medics are running with a stretcher to a helicopter – cri.

Helicopters on the airfield – general, panorama.

They escort and carry the wounded – medium, Poland.

Colour: Crack in the ground – cr, Poland.

Flying over ruined cities – general.

Ruined houses – medium (with movement), general.

A boy looks – cr.

Israel: desert landscape – general, Poland.

The shore of the Mediterranean Sea – medium.

Landscape, mountains in the distance – general, Poland.

A panorama of Jerusalem – general.

The ship "Peace" at sea – medium (from the ship), Poland.

Former amateur radio pilot, from Israel, Ebi Nathan in the ship's radio room – medium, cr.

A panorama of E. Nathan's office in Tel Aviv; E. Nathan, whose radio station "Voice of Peace" called for help for Armenia, speaks about himself (simultaneously in English) – medium.

Hands kneading dough – kr; panorama of the Italian baker’s face – kr.

Italian bakers at work – wed, kr.

Woman carrying a basket of bread – wed, kr.

Italian Minister for Disaster Relief Vito Lotanzio indoors speaking about aid to Armenia (synchronously in Italian) – kr.

Ruins of the Colosseum in Rome – wed, panorama, zoom out.

B/w: map of Armenia on the wall – wed, zoom in.

Canals and houses in Venice – wed, panorama and from a boat, general.

Buildings of the Armenian Abbey of the Mekhitarists on the island of Saint-Lazare – general, wed.

The leader of the abbey, Father Nerses, walks along the gallery, speaks about the earthquake in Armenia (synchronously in Armenian) – wed.

B/W: Armenia: wounded schoolboy Marat Arakelyan (9-10 years old) lies on a hospital bed, talks about the earthquake (synchronously) – cf.

A little girl watches – cf.

Newsreel from 1988: Traffic jam on the highway, ambulances standing – cf.

Stream of cars on a mountain road – general (from an upper point).

People on the ruins, clearing rubble, pulling people out, carrying corpses, dust, smoke – various.

Newsreel from 1988: People are clearing rubble, pulling out corpses – various.

A wrecked bus – kr, panorama (from the inside).

A man is crying on the ruins – kr, panorama.

They are carrying a corpse on a stretcher – cf.

A wounded man is lying, people are crying – cf.

People are clearing rubble at night, warming themselves by a fire – general.

Floodlights and torches are burning – cf., general, panorama.

A boy is watching – kr.

A baker is carrying buns to the oven – cf., panorama.

Hands are measuring out dough on scales – kr.

A woman is preparing dough, putting a baking sheet in the oven – cf., panorama.

Frau Bach, an employee of the Hensen Radio (FRG), is talking about aid to Armenia in the radio studio (simultaneously in German) – cf., panorama.

Photographs and drawings on the table – kr.

Radio studio room, panorama of the commentator – medium, small.

Children in the classroom: sitting on the floor, drawing, etc. – medium, small, panorama (Frankfurt am Main).

Schoolchildren from a German school talk about helping earthquake victims: Shuruzaki from Tokyo, Nika Prey (Germany), Fabian Lindner (Germany) – all speaking simultaneously in German) – small, panorama.

The building of the Croatian church in Munich – medium, panorama.

Church service, panorama from the organ to the believers – general, medium, panorama.

The face of a praying woman – small.

Priest Father Stefan talks about helping Armenia (synchronized in Serbian) on the street – small, zoom in.

Newsreel from 1988: Demonstration in Armenia in support of perestroika – general (from above), panorama.

A stand with photographs of those killed in Sumgait on the street – kr., PNR.

Crowds of people at a rally in Yerevan – general.

People are holding a banner with the inscription: "Stop mocking an entire nation" – general.

A trumpeter is playing, people are standing with their fists raised – general, Poland.

A rally – general, departure.

A staircase in a house, children on the railing – medium, Poland (rapid motion).

The door to the room where the members of the Karabakh committee are meeting opens, people turn around – medium (rapid motion, freeze frame).

The painting "The Last Supper" on the wall – general.

A member of the Karabakh committee Vazgen Manukyan speaks on the balcony about aid to earthquake victims (synchronously in Armenian) – general.

Members of the Karabakh committee at the table – medium, kr, Poland.

A member of the committee Levon Ter-Petrosyan speaks on the balcony (synchronously in Armenian) – general.

B/w: First-grader Sahak from Leninakan speaks about the earthquake while sitting in a wheelchair (synchronously, in Armenian) – kr.

The bell ringer rings the bell – kr.

Driving along the ruins of the city of Spitak – cf.

Ruins – kr., cf., Poland.

Newsreel from 1988: A car under the ruins of houses – cf.

People near destroyed houses – cf.

A boy driving cows – cf.

Destruction in a village – cf. , Poland.

Dogs near destroyed houses – cf.

A man crying near a destroyed house – kr., Poland.

People near the ruins, a fire is burning – cf., Poland.

Faces of an old man in a helmet, an elderly woman – kr.

A woman is sitting, wrapped in a blanket – cf.

A girl is watching – kr.

A destroyed school; children's coats on a hanger, panorama of desks – cf. panorama of schoolbags – cf. books in ruins – cr., panorama. people collecting books – cr., cf.; clearing ruins – cf.; carrying paintings – cf. ruins, panorama of a reproduction of "The Last Day of Pompeii" - cf., panorama. b/w: boy looking – cr.

Georgia: landscape with mountains – general, panorama. women preparing dough, baking lavash – cr. finished lavash – cr.

Georgian writer Chabua Amirejibi speaking (synchronously in Georgian) – kr.

An ancient monastery – Wed, Poland.

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Amirejibi walks along a street near the monastery wall, stands with a Georgian priest – Wed.

The monastery tower – Wed, Poland.

England: Poland over the bookshelves in the office – Wed.

English director and actor Steve Berkoff speaking, sitting on a balcony, a woman standing next to him (synchronously in English) – Wed.

Summer landscape with a river – general, departure.

Amateur speleologist from Moscow Andrei Terentyev, who helped the victims in Armenia, walks through the forest, looking for mushrooms – Wed; feet in boots – kr.

Terentyev's wife near a tree with a dog – Wed. A. Terentyev lights a fire, plays in the forest with a dog (his voice-over) – kr, Wed.

The studio of the English artist John Oyland – Wed, panorama of the paints. D. Oyland speaking in the studio (simultaneously in English) – Wed, panorama of Oyland’s painting – Wed, kr.

Guard of honour in period dress at a palace in London – Wed.

Rider in period costume on a horse – kr, panorama.

Palace, bus passing by – Wed, panorama, departure.

Churches of the Pskov-Pechersky Monastery – Wed.

Woodpile in the monastery courtyard – Wed.

Monks sweeping the courtyard – kr; baking bread – kr, Wed.

Faces of men, monk – kr.

Hands cutting bread – kr.

Monastery common areas (from the river) – departure.

The iconostasis in the Pskov-Pechersky Monastery – Wed, Poland.

Archbishop Vladimir of Pskov and Pokrovsky speaks about the earthquake in Armenia (synchronously) – Wed, zoom in.

Poland from the bell to the dome of the church – kr.

Father Vladimir passes by, they offer him bread and salt – kr.

Believers in the church – kr. persons.

Service in the monastery – Wed.

Candles are burning – kr.

Chandelier – kr.

Iconostasis, zoom in on the icon "Trinity" - kr.

Food products - offerings of parishioners – kr.

The city of Jerusalem (Israel) – general (from the top point).

People at the "Wailing Wall" - general, departure.

Chief Rabbi of Israel Abraham Shapiro speaks indoors (synchronously in Hebrew) – kr.

Shelves with books in the office – kr, Poland, departure.

A panorama of the old part of Jerusalem – general (from the top).

A monk is walking by the wall of an ancient Armenian church – medium, panorama.

Priests are leafing through an old book in the church – medium.

Interior of an Armenian church – medium.

Monk with a church book – small.

Service in the church – medium.

The Patriarch of Jerusalem, Archbishop Yeghishe, is speaking indoors (synchronously in Armenian) – medium, small.

Interior of the archbishop’s chambers – medium, panorama.

Painting with Christ – medium, departure.

B/w: Armenia: a schoolgirl of about 13-14 years old, a victim of the earthquake, is speaking in the hospital (synchronously in Armenian) – small.

The bell ringer is ringing the bell – small.

Newsreel from 1988: People near covered corpses – medium; corpses on the ground – medium, small.

Corpses – various; hands of a dead woman – kr.

Coffins on a car, on a truck – kr., Wed.

People are carrying coffins – Wed, Poland.

Destruction – general.

A woman is crying over a coffin – Wed, departure.

An old woman is crying, Poland at her shaking hands – kr.

Empty coffins on the street – Wed (from the movement).

Men are putting a corpse in a coffin – Wed.

Coffins on the street – gen. (from the plane).

A boy is crying – kr.

Cemetery: people are crying, putting coffins in a grave – Wed.

Corpses wrapped in cloth in a grave – Wed, Poland.

Funeral – general, Poland.

A man is putting a sign on a grave with an inscription in Armenian – kr.

A boy is looking – kr.

The Bundestag building in Bonn (FRG) – Wed.

The clock on the old tower – kr.

The President of the Bundestag Rita Süssmuth speaks indoors about aid to Armenia (synchronously in German) – kr, departure, zoom in.

Syria: Damascus – general (from the top point), Poland, zoom in.

The Vice President of Syria Mohammed Zuher al-Masharka speaks in his office about aid to Armenia (synchronously in Arabic) – kr.

The Ter-Zor desert – Wed, Poland.

Newsreel from 1915: The Turks lead Armenians to be shot, people kneel.

Corpses lie around.

Severed heads.

Photo: people on the gallows; Armenian priests – kr.

The Seine embankment in Paris (France) – Wed.

French film director Henri Verneuil (Ashot Malakyan) talks about Armenia at home (simultaneously in French) – short.

Israel: Israeli Finance Minister Shiman Peres talks about Armenia in his office (simultaneously in Hebrew) – short, departure, run-in.

The city of Jerusalem and the desert in its vicinity – general, Poland, departure.

Fortress buildings with Israeli flags – cf.

Buildings in Jerusalem – cf.

Young people at the walls of an ancient fortress – cf., Poland.

England, London: Downing Street – Wed, Poland, departure.

The square with the Big Ben clock tower – general, Poland.

British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher talks about aid to Armenia (synchronously in English in her office) – Wed, kr.

Armenia: a crowd of people – Wed.

A plane taxiing – Wed.

Cargo being unloaded from the plane – Wed.

B/W: Unloading humanitarian aid for Armenia – Wed.

Foreign rescuers with a dog – Wed.

Containers and boxes with parcels for Armenia – Wed.

Rescuers with a radio, working – Wed, Wed, Poland; faces – kr.

A wounded man being carried on a stretcher – Wed.

On board a foreign plane – kr, Poland.

Loading things for Armenia – Wed.

Boxes with clothes with the inscription "for Armenia" - kr, Poland.

Rescuers at a tent – Wed, Poland.

Rescuers' dog in the ruins – kr.

Trucks near the ruins – kr.

The inscription on the window of a truck "Sevastopol - Armenia" - kr.

Foreign flag above a tent – kr.

Foreign plane at the airport – kr, running over the emblem.

Foreign rescuers at the airfield, descending the steps of the plane – kr, Wed; in the ruins – kr; near the tent city – Wed, Poland.

A dog running through the ruins – Wed, Poland.

Children injured in the earthquake (one infant) in the hospital – kr, Poland.

Doctor's face – kr.

Woman crying – kr.

Wounded girl receiving assistance – kr.

Putting on a plaster cast – kr.

Doctor giving a boy something to drink in the hospital – kr.

Child's hand with an IV – kr.

Face of a female doctor – kr.

IV drip – kr.

Bales and boxes at the airport – kr, Poland. M. S. Gorbachev and N. S. Ryzhkov among the residents of Armenia and rescuers – general.

Mikhail Sergeyevich and Raisa Mikhailovna Gorbachev talk to the victims, to a crying woman – kr. N. I. Ryzhkov walks through the ruins – wed.

B/w: An elderly Armenian woman kisses N. I. Ryzhkov – wed.

Rescuers among the ruins, with a jackhammer, with a radio set – wed, kr.

Mother Teresa and those accompanying her walk past the Armenian church – wed, Poland.

Writer Albert Likhanov among Armenian children – wed, departure.

A black woman holds an Armenian child in her arms – wed, Poland.

The son and grandson of the American president R. Reagan are crying – kr, wed.

A wounded Armenian boy looks on – kr.

French pop singer Charles Aznavour in Armenia, on the ruins of a city – Wed.

People in a crowd – Wed, Poland.

A wounded man being carried out and carried out – Wed.

People being given blankets – Wed.

Men collecting water in buckets – Wed; there is a row of canisters – Crit, Poland.

A boy eating from a plate, standing on the street – Wed.

Women sitting on the street – Wed.

A cook distributing food to the homeless – Wed.

A girl carrying a saucepan – Wed, Poland.

A foreign ambulance – Crit.

Men from Central Asia setting up a yurt – Wed.

Foreigners setting up a prefabricated house – Wed.

Clothes being handed out from the car – Wed.

A boy carrying a chandelier – Wed.

A television on the street – Wed.

People on the street near a tent and a makeshift stove – Wed.

A woman rocking a baby in a stroller on the street – Wed.

Women with children on the street – Wed, Poland.

People at a stand with photographs of children missing in the earthquake – Wed; photographs of children – cr; Poland at the stand – Wed.

People are crying – cr.

Italy: the interior of a palace – Wed.

An elderly woman is looking – Wed; hands – cr.

Armenian children living in Italy after the earthquake are singing in a choir in a palace, a man is conducting (synchronously) – Wed.

Armenia: priests walking towards the church – MC. A nun wearing glasses praying – MC. Supreme Patriarch, Catholicos of All Armenians Vazgen I, conducting a service – MC, MC. Candles burning in the church, children watching – MC, Poland.

People lighting candles – MC. Church service – MC. People in the church, women praying – general, Poland.

B/W: Armenian girl watching – MC. Color: Driving past earthquake ruins – MC. B/W: Flying over destroyed city – general.

Woman on the ruins of a house – MC; women and men crying, girl – MC, Poland view of man and boy (rapid motion, freeze frame).

Vazgen I speaking (synchronously in Armenian) – MC. Tree – MC, driving away.

Israel, Jerusalem: stone road leading to the Holy Sepulcher, stone slabs – medium, close (with movement).

Entrance to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher – close (with movement).

Interior of the temple – medium, zoom out and freeze frame.

Flags of different countries – close.