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- That's a cut.
- Okay, everybody.
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- Everything you see here is
based on what my mother told me.
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What is it?
:31:23
- You wouldn't be able to see
Mount Ararat from Van.
:31:26
- Well, yes, but I thought
it would be important.
:31:30
- But it's not true.
- It's true in spirit.
:31:33
- See what you can do, okay?
And let me know.
:31:37
Okay, I gotta go.
Yeah, I gotta get off.
:31:40
Okay, l'II talk to you later.
Okay, bye.
:31:42
Sorry, I had a call.
:31:43
- Rouben, Ani's confused
about the mountain, Ararat.
:31:47
She has noticed quite correctly
:31:49
that it would not be seen
from Van.
:31:51
- Well, we thought
we could stretch things a bit.
:31:53
I mean, it's such
an identifiable symbol
:31:54
and given the moment in history
that we're trying to show,
:31:57
l just...
- So it's something
:31:58
you could justify?
- Sure. Poetic license.
:32:02
- Where do you get those?
:32:05
- Wherever you can.
:32:07
- So that's my job?
:32:09
To let you feel better
about distorting things?
:32:12
- The young boy in our film
:32:14
gets sent by Ussher
to deliver a letter.
:32:19
He gets caught by the Turks.
:32:21
- That's the character
we'd make into Gorky.
:32:24
- How would you do that?
:32:26
- Okay. By April 1915,
:32:29
the Turks have completely
surrounded the Armenian quarter.
:32:32
Within the quarter,
inside these fortified walls,
:32:34
the American mission, run by
a Dr. Clarence Ussher. Okay?
:32:39
Outside, a few hundred men
armed with ancient guns
:32:43
are surrounded
by well-armed troops
:32:46
with the latest
in European artillery.
:32:48
Miraculously,
through their ingenuity,
:32:52
or their teamwork,
:32:55
they're able to hold
the Armenian position,
:32:57
but they're completely isolated.
:32:58
They're cut off
from the outside world.