Avet Avetisyan
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Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Adult: No
Birthday: November 12, 1897
Age: 127 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 29, 1971
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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: 1926-11-09
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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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Mountainous March

Overview: A detachment of Bolsheviks impedes the progress of a punitive detachment through the gorge and prevents it from suppressing a revolt.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: hy
Release Date: 1939-09-08
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Collapse

Overview: Vardan experiences a period of despair, losing trust in people and believing they use others for personal gain.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hy
Release Date: 1959-05-03
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