Russian-Armenian director releases poster for film on Spitak earthquake

Russian-Armenian director Sarik Andreasyan’s movie dedicated to the 1988 devastating earthquake in Spitak is featured in a recently released poster.

In the movie, the author tells about the great disaster that leveled 300 cities, towns and villages across Armenia, claiming 25,000 human lives and leaving 19,000 crippled.

The heroes in the film are Russian and Armenian actors (Kostantin Lavronenko, Maria Mironova, Daniil Izotov, Victor Stepanyan etc). It took the author two years to complete the project.

The central characters in the movie are two heroes, Kostantin Berezhny, 45 and Robert Melonyan, 20.  The former was responsible for a car accident that killed the young men’s parents. Years later, the two meet at the scene of disaster, finding each other side by side as members of the same rescue team.