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The Great Beauty of Armenia in an Italian comedy

Hotel Gagarin

Hotel Gagarin Source: official trailer

Lorenzo Rossi Espagnet co-wrote the movie Hotel Gagarin, which will be screened in Sydney as part of the Armenian Film Festival.


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Lorenzo Rossi Espagnet co-wrote the movie Hotel Gagarin, which will be screened in Sydney as part of the Armenian Film Festival.


A group of Italian "outsiders" is sent to shoot a film in Armenia, but a war breaks out after they arrive.

After being abandoned at a hotel in the forest by their producer - who vanished taking with him the money received by the EU to fund the film -, they find an unexpected opportunity for happiness.

Lorenzo Rossi Espagnet wrore the film together with director Simone Spada. 

Hotel Gagarin will be screened in Sydney as part of the Armenian Film Festival.

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