The film uses two strands of poetry , in Western Armenian and English . Varoujan 's original poetry is recited by Yeğya Akgün in Western Armenian , accompanied by English subtitles , translated by Alice Stone Blackwell , Tatul Sonentz-Papazian , etc . Young Taniel Varoujan had witnessed Hamidian massacres as a child , which profoundly affected his poetry , and the film uses some of his works which were prophetic about the 1915 events . " Taniel " 's scenes are explained in the poet 's rich , innovative Western Armenian , using poems from his various books about loss , love , exile and his yearning for peace for the mankind . The film concludes with an epilogue from " Nemesis " ( Նեմեսիս ) , an epic poem from " The Heart of the Race " The English poem , narrating the film , was written by Ben Hodgson and is called " Indelible " . The poem is read by Sean Bean , and is " Ben ’s reading of contemporary accounts of the actual events later to be depicted in the film " . The dual language version of the film has Western Armenian subtitles for " Indelible "
Hamidian massacres
Hamidian massacres
Taniel