Ararat Beckons
Michael Hagopian (filmmaker)
Armenian Film Foundation
Released: 2000

A film of striking beauty and mystery on the first Armenian expedition to Mount Ararat, the presumed resting place of Noah’s Ark. An extraordinary motion picture about the history of the world's most famous mountain. 50 minutes. English & Armenian.

Where many have failed and some even lost their lives, Masis and Gregory Parseghian and Hamlet Nersesian succeeded. Overcoming the hardships of incarceration, severe weather, local hostility and soaring altitudes, they accomplished their goal through sheer will and perseverance.

The film became a reality after four shipments of film were smuggled out of Turkey over a two year period.

Ararat Beckons is more than a film of adventure. It is a poetic statement of the historic bond between a mountain and a people, a father and a son.