Auction of Souls (1919)
Ravished Armenia
80 min
A Hollywood biographical film about a survivor's experience of the Armenian Genocide. Arshaluys (Aurora) Mardiganian plays herself in the film which is based on her published memoirs. It is thought to be the first film about made about genocide. All known complete copies of the film have been lost. A restored and edited 24-minute segment of the historic motion picture was released in 2009 by the Armenian Genocide Resource Center of Northern California. It is based on a rare surviving reel of film edited in Soviet Armenia.
- Release date
- January 19, 1919
- Country of origin
- United States
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Cast
- Aurora Mardiganian as Aurora
- Irving Cummings as Andranik
- Anna Q. Nilsson as Edith Graham
- Howard Davies
- Hector Dion
- Henry Morgenthau as U.S. Ambassador Henry Morgenthau
- Lillian West
- Eugenie Besserer
- Frank Clark
- Miles McCarthy
Crew
- Oscar Apfel · Director
- Aurora Mardiganian · Writer
- Henry Leyford Gates · Writer
- Frederick Chapin · Writer
- William Nicholas Selig · Producer