After turning to the "Hayfilm" screen a hundred times with hope and faith and almost as many times leaving the cinema hall with some feeling of discomfort (another failure seems to be your personal failure), today if we talk about our cinema with wit, it means that we still cherish hope, we have not given up on our "promiscuous brother" and we will never give up, unbelieving cynicism is still a hard mask on our face. did not take it and never will take it. It will not be taken, because cinema is the most important part of our cultural front today, especially tomorrow, in the fierce national-class competition, the defeat of which would be equal to the defeat of the entire front, and where it would be worth concentrating our most talented organizers and artists. This is not an exaggeration. cinema and above all only cinema is able to tell the world who we are, where we come from, where we are going.
But first we need to know who we are and then just say it. Do we know, even half-Tarkovsky, half-Bondarchuk, half-Mikhalkov, half-the most famous Russian director, do the majority of our directors-directors know the history, poetry, language of their people? let's say that the film camera is accidentally taken from his hands, that film director should be an Armenian writer. not a popular writer, which unfortunately would also be desirable today, but a national writer, an artist able to tell about himself. The answer is one and famous. And from this one and the same fortress of ignorance-powerlessness, both the "blind pilgrimage" and the equally blind "crusade" to Armenian literature and reality begin.
It seems that, at least in the first case, there is nothing wrong, it seems that it is at least loyalty to the letter and word of native literature, so also to the spirit of the people. Actually, that's it, they - appeasing with that ignorance and being accredited with ignorance - are equally destructive for the cinema itself.
Starting from sports and ending with state-political activities, almost all the more or less prominent Armenians of all important marzes and almost all the successful works of the literary minority have passed through the screen, here and there Armenians still continue to be noted, our time is adding success to the successes of our literary ancestors as much as it can, and Armenian cinema continues to follow our reality and literature - it continues to screen what happened, finished, held, stabilized states and faces, which, of course, deserve respect and honor, but which do not allow the creative artist to say the word, impose their word, which was already familiar. And every serious art, including film art, and every self-respecting artist becomes such by discovering and researching new problems of reality, creating new values from the raw material of reality only, not by reworking the existing values, transferring the existing values, allegedly, to a new language. What would the filmmakers themselves name our writers if we retold their films in the language of literature?
You are the same writers, except you write with a magical film camera. It is time, it is time, dear younger brothers, you are younger, but you have not been young for a long time, it is time to face the creation of the cultural life of this people and, thus, the future of this country, with equal brotherly rights and equal responsibility.