Avet Avetisyan
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Department: Acting
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The Daughter
Overview: One of the few Armenian fictions of the 1940s, this parable about the aftermath of World War II reveals the director's deeply humanistic vision, who finds the epic and the universal in minor and private subjects.
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Original Language: hy
Release Date: 1942-01-01
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Krder-Ezidner
Overview: The film is about the establishment of a kolkhoz (collective farm) in a Kurdish village in Soviet Armenia.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1933-01-03
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Zare
Overview: Immediately prior to the Russian Revolution, a young shepherd Seydo and his girlfriend Zare struggle for their right to a happy love in a Yazidi Kurdish village in Russian Armenia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hy
Release Date: 1926-01-31
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Shor and Shorshor
Overview: Two friends, Shor and Shorshor, both idlers and drunkards, have many comical adventures and get into lot of trouble.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hy
Release Date: 1926-08-13
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David Bek
Overview: The Armenian national hero, David Bek, leads a major Armenian uprising against Safavid Persia in the Syunik region in the 18th century.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: hy
Release Date: 1944-02-14
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Khaspush
Overview: The movie is about the suppressed revolt of "khaspushes", Persian peasants and craftsmen in 1891.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: hy
Release Date: 1928-01-31
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Gikor
Overview: Village man Hambo, trying to set up his son Gikor, gives him in service of well-to-do merchant Bazaz Artem. Gikor couldn't find neither cordiality, nor kindness in merchant's house and misses his home. Some envy small bailiff but nobody see his sufferings.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hy
Release Date: 1934-12-19
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Family of Patriots
Overview: Patriotic film from 1941 of Armenian men being called up to fight for the Red Army
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: hy
Release Date: 1941-07-09
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Anahit
Overview: The prince falls in love with an ordinary girl and marries her. Later, when enemies capture the prince, it's his young wife who gets him out of trouble.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: hy
Release Date: 1947-12-02
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Pepo
Overview: A poor but honest fisherman Pepo opposes a cunning trader Zimzimov, who tries to rob him by trickery refusing to pay a lost bill. Pepo choses prison to paying-off his honour.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: hy
Release Date: 1935-06-15
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Why Does The River Roar?
Overview: Atanes Ghambaryan, resident of Armenian border village, after the captivity during the World War II, turns up abroad in Turkey and dreams of returning to his homeland. During one of night patrols, border guard Armen who is in love with Ghambaryan's daughter Seda, recognizes him on the other side of the river Araks.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: hy
Release Date: 1959-10-05
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Zangezur
Overview: The film is about the civil war in the Zangezur (Syunik) province of Armenia in the early 1920s. The last Dashnak battalions headed by Sparapet Nzhdeh still opposed both the incursion of Red Army and the local Bolshevik partisans.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: hy
Release Date: 1938-05-23
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Karo
Overview: A schoolboy, Karo, gets involved into the struggle between Communists and Dashnaks during the establishment of a Soviet regime in Armenia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hy
Release Date: 1937-11-01
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Nazar the Brave
Overview: Comical tale about how the coward Nazar who, as a joke of fate, appears to preside over the throne.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hy
Release Date: 1940-01-01
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Kikos
Overview: A naive peasant appears by turns during the Civil War in two hostile camps and finally chooses the Red Army.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-12
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A Slave of St. George
Overview: The first banned film of Armenian cinema. The further screening of the film was forbidden in Soviet Armenia because of the scenes in a brothel. The People's Commissariat of Education banned the screening of the film in Armenia, citing the fact that the events depicted in the film are characteristic of the period of Dashnaktsutyun's rule and that in 1927-1928 the screening of such a film cannot play an educational role.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hy
Release Date: 1928-01-20
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Morgan's Relative
Overview: About a bankrupt millionaire who dreams of becoming related to the Morgan family. The action takes place after the revolution, in Paris, among Armenian immigrants.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hy
Release Date: 1970-11-23
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Spring in Kolkhoz
Overview: A silent short film showcasing the tensions and disparities between different social classes within an Armenian rural community.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hy
Release Date: 1929-01-01
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Honor
Overview: Namus (Armenian: Նամուս, meaning "honor") is a 1925 silent film by Hamo Beknazarian, based on Alexander Shirvanzade's 1885 novel of the same name, which denounces the despotic rites and customs of Caucasian families. It is widely recognized as the first Armenian feature film.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: hy
Release Date: 1926-04-13
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