
Avet Avetisyan
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Vardan experiences a period of despair, losing trust in people and believing they use others for personal gain.
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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.
Zangezur

The film is an adaptation of the life of 18th-century Armenian poet and troubadour Sayat-Nova.
Sayat-Nova

The Armenian national hero, David Bek, leads a major Armenian uprising against Safavid Persia in the Syunik region in the 18th century.
David Bek

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.
Gikor

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.
Zare

Comical tale about how the coward Nazar who, as a joke of fate, appears to preside over the throne.
Nazar the Brave

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.
Pepo

Based on Alexander Shirvanzade's 1885 novel of the same name, the film denounces the despotic rites and customs of Caucasian families. It is widely recognized as the first Armenian feature film.
Honor

The movie is about the suppressed revolt of "khaspushes", Persian peasants and craftsmen in 1891.
Khaspush

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.
Why Does The River Roar?

Tigran, the head of "kolkhoz", is working without strain, reckoning with the responsiveness and support of neighboring collective farms. To punish Tigran's dependency, his lover Anush, the head of Jeyranik collective farm, the first boycots him refusing to help. After being fired during the review meeting, Tigran recognizes his failure and goes for work in construction of local hydro-power station.
The Girl of Ararat Valley

A schoolboy, Karo, gets involved into the struggle between Communists and Dashnaks during the establishment of a Soviet regime in Armenia.
Karo
Two friends, Shor and Shorshor, both idlers and drunkards, have many comical adventures and get into lot of trouble.
Shor and Shorshor

A silent short film showcasing the tensions and disparities between different social classes within an Armenian rural community.
Spring in Kolkhoz

A naive peasant appears by turns during the Civil War in two hostile camps and finally chooses the Red Army.
Kikos

A detachment of Bolsheviks impedes the progress of a punitive detachment through the gorge and prevents it from suppressing a revolt.
Mountainous March

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.
Anahit

Patriotic film from 1941 of Armenian men being called up to fight for the Red Army
Family of Patriots

The film is about the establishment of a kolkhoz (collective farm) in a Kurdish village in Soviet Armenia.