Still schoolboy Levon Atoyants decided to leave for Batumi together with 4 friends, then to take the other friend and to go to the front.
One June day the radio announced Soviet Union has joined the World War II.
There was a strict control in Tbilisi by Stalin’s decree. Still schoolboy Levon Atoyants decided to leave for Batumi together with 4 friends, then to take the other friend and to go to the front. But the children were sent back from Batumi.
The future film operator was afraid to return home for several days. Meanwhile, his father was silently being proud of the bravery of his 10-year-old son.
Atoyants never appeared in the battlefield of the Great Patriotic War. But after some decades he joined theArtsakh War. He will never forget what he has captured with his camera.
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