Taniel ( Armenian : " Դանիէլ " ) is a multi award winning arthouse short film by British writer and director Garo Berberian , telling the story of the last months of poet Taniel Varoujan until his murder during the Armenian Genocide at the age of 31 , the day of his son ’s birth . The film is the first to deal with the story of a man considered to be one of Armenia ’s greatest poets with international fame . The film is loosely based on the memoirs of Aram Andonian , a journalist arrested on the same day as Varoujan , on 24 April 1915 , when some 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders were rounded up and deported in the first major event of the Armenian Genocide . The film takes an arthouse approach to the subject seen in film-noir with a narrative in poetry both with Varoujan ’s now endangered Western Armenian language ( according to Unesco classification ) read by Yegya Akgun and Ben Hodgson ’s English poem " Indelible " , narrated by Sean Bean to critical acclaim . Philip Glass ’s Glassworks played by Valentina Lisitsa , Michael Nyman ’s Out of the Ruins , Jordi Savall ’s Armenian Spirit and Tigran Hamasyan ’s Luis I Luso form the soundtrack . “ Taniel ” is filmed in Neo-noir style , influenced by the Film noir movement and the works of Orson Welles in Citizen Kane and Rouben Mamoulian in The Mark of Zorro . The narrative of the film is heard through poetry in two languages - with Varoujan 's original poems in the now endangered Western Armenian dialect expressing and explaining the scenes delivered by Yegya Akgun ; and writer Ben Hodgson 's narrative poetry in English delivered by multi award winning actor Sean Bean . Film 's emotive music by Philip Glass , Tigran Hamasyan , Michael Nyman and the others is an integral part of the story , complementing the visuals and poetry
Armenian Genocide
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Taniel