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Ravished Armenia is a Arménien film of genre Drama directed by Oscar Apfel released in USA on 19 january 1919 with Aurora Mardiganian

Ravished Armenia (1919)

Auction of Souls

Ravished Armenia
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Released in USA 19 january 1919
Directed by
OriginArménie
Genres Drama,    War,    Historical,    Romance
Rating55% 2.753172.753172.753172.753172.75317

Ravished Armenia, also known as Auction of Souls, is a 1919 American film based on the autobiographical book Ravished Armenia by Arshaluys (Aurora) Mardiganian, who also played the lead role in the film. The film, which depicts the 1915 Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman Empire from the point of view of Armenian survivor Mardiganian, who plays herself in the film, survives in an incomplete form.

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According to a contemporary New York Times article, the first half of the film shows "Armenia as it was before Turkish and German devastation, and led up to the deportation of priests and thousands of families into the desert. One of the concluding scenes showed young Armenian women flogged for their refusal to enter Turkish harems and depicted the Turkish slave markets."

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