Harut hagopian biography of michael w

In summer of , when the Ottoman soldiers rampaged through Kharpert, Michael's mother hid her child in a mulberry bush and prayed that the soldiers would not find him. Both escaped, [ 2 ] and moved to Fresno, California. Hagopian received an undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley , and after receiving a doctorate in international relations from Harvard University , he went into cinema and founded the Atlantis Films Company, which produced over fifty documentary films on ethnic minorities and foreign lands.

The film encompassed twenty years of research and nearly witness interviews.

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In , Hagopian founded the non-profit Armenian Film Foundation dedicated to preserving the visual and personal histories of the witnesses to the Armenian Genocide. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version. In other projects. Wikidata item. American film director — Biography [ edit ].

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