The stateless diplomat : Diana Apcar's heroic life
(DVD) 

Title from disc label.

Wide screen.

Diana Apcar, consul to Japan from Armenia, was an idealistic Armenian woman living in Yokohama at a time when women and politics rarely coexisted. For years she tried to attract attention to the plight of the Armenians perishing under Ottoman rule, writing constantly. Her books, articles, and letters to world leaders show her deep insight into world politics, blaming the European Powers for setting the framework to allow the Armenian Genocide and forecasting continuing atrocities toward the Armenians. She pleads with her readers. But her voice remains unheard, and her worst predictions come true. Some survivors flee to Russia only to find the country deep in revolution and civil war: ₃the only safe direction is east.₄ Many of the survivors have relatives in the U.S. and wish to join them; their hopes fade as they travel thousands of miles across Siberia. In Japan, Diana is eagerly helping these people. They are desperate, penniless, undocumented, and lost. Will they even be able to survive?

DVD, wide screen.

Closed-captioned.