What the...

Hey! What happened to Egon?!
He just disappeared and got replaced by another turkish soldier falling in love with Nunik! What a shame!
What happened?
Did Alessandro Preziosi ask for too much money and got fired? Evidently the Taviani bros. didn't have enough money to reshoot all the scenes with Egon.
I wish italian cinema wasn't so pennyless. This would have been a really great movie... if they only could keep the same male leading actor all the way to the end.
Pity! Pity! Pity!

Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?
Adolf Hitler, 1939