ARARAT, The Shooting Script, Screenplay and Introduction by Atom Egoyan (softcover)

Canadian-Armenian filmmaker Atom Egoyan’s Ararat (2002) is a contemporary story of two estranged families and their search for reconciliation and truth. A film-within-a-film, it is also a historical re-enactment being made by a famous Armenian director, Edward Saroyan, whose production is based on Clarence Ussher’s actual book An American Physician in Turkey, which depicts the siege of Van and the Armenian Genocide of 1915. In the style of The Sweet Hereafter and his other works, Egoyan shifts seamlessly through time, exploring the quest for identity through the intimate moments shared by lovers, families, enemies, and strangers. The book included the screenplay, essays by Egoyan and Timothy Taylor, film stills, and full cast and crew credits.