No state funding provided for Armenian film Garegin Nzhdeh - spokesperson

The film telling about the glorious Armenian statesman and general, Garegin Nzhdeh, did not attract a government funding, according to the National Cinema Center.

“We have absolutely nothing to do with that,” a spokesperson for the Center, Ruzan Bagratuni, told Tert.am, noting that the films produced in Armenia receive a government funding through their organization after being approved by their Artistic Council.

The local newspaper Chorrord Inqnishkhanutyun said earlier today that the film’s costs – 7 million US Dollars – were partially covered by Maxim Hakobyan, an owner of the Syunik Copper-Molybdenum Plant. The paper claimed that Hakobyan had paid several million dollars to the director, Hrach Keshishyan, for producing the movie.

But the report was neither confirmed nor denied by Hakobyan’s assistant whom Tert.am contacted for further comment.