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  1. Edgar Baghdasaryan says:

    Dear Mr Sassounian. Based on your article, I have become part of a serious conspiracy to keep the documentary “1489” out of the Oscar cycle. The National Film Academy is made up of Armenian filmmakers from the United States, France, Russia and naturally Armenia. To imagine that Nikol Pashinyan could call and somehow influence the secret ballot is absurd and improbable from the beginning. If it could happen, the academy would ignore it. The Best Foreign Film nomination is tacitly considered a category for feature films, and it is very rare for a documentary to get in. For example, a Ukrainian film, which you can see how it got there and won being a very mediocre picture. “Yasha and Leonid Brezhnev” is a serious film. Yes, with humour inherent in tragicomedy. The film raises important issues and surprisingly (the script was written 8 years ago) anticipated the current state of world politics and its impact on the common man. I can talk to you personally, as I am in Los Angeles now and I am inviting you to the only screening of the film on the 25th of November in AGBU. You can create your own opinion without referring to dubious sources. The film is under incredible political pressure completely undeserved and directed by certain circles. Yesterday, Russia again confirmed the ban on showing the film. With all its political sarcasm, “Yasha and Leonid Brezhnev” hardly deserves it. With great respect Edgar Baghdasaryan.

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