Ravished Armenia (film)

Ravished Armenia
Original 1919 poster for the film
Directed byOscar Apfel
Written byHarvey Gates
Aurora Mardiganian
Nora Waln
Frederic Chapin
Produced byWilliam Nicholas Selig
StarringAurora Mardiganian
Irving Cummings
Anna Q. Nilsson
Henry Morgenthau
Lillian West
Distributed byFirst National Pictures
Release date
  • January 19, 1919 (1919-01-19)
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English subtitles)
Box office$1 million[1]

Ravished Armenia, also known as Auction of Souls, is a 1919 American silent film based on the autobiographical book Ravished Armenia by Arshaluys (Aurora) Mardiganian, who also played the lead role in the film. The film, which depicts the 1915 Armenian genocide by the Ottoman Empire from the point of view of Armenian survivor Mardiganian, who plays herself in the film,[2] survives in an incomplete form.

A surviving part of the film
  1. ^ "You Never Can Tell". Variety. 4 February 1921. p. 32. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
  2. ^ Review, synopsis and link to watch the film: "A cinema history". Retrieved 15 July 2014.