
Galya Novents
Acting
Biography
Galya Novents (Armenian: Գալյա Նովենց; 1 July 1937 – 22 July 2012) was a Soviet and Armenian stage and film actress, one of the most prominent Armenian actresses of the 20th century. Galya Novents was born on 1 July 1937 in Yerevan. In 1958, she graduated from Yerevan Institute of Fine Arts and Theatre. The 42nd Venice International Film Festival gave her a special mention for Best Actress, which was not awarded. In 2007, Novents was awarded the title of People's Artist of the Republic of Armenia. She died on 22 July 2012 in Los Angeles at the age of seventy-five.
Known For

Two years after receiving news of his father’s death in WWII a young boy continues to wait for trains from the front. The boy lives with his crippled uncle rather than with his mother, who has remarried and has another child. Then one day the father returns.
Sour Grapes

Doctor, living through the trials of the Stalin era and the World War II, does not lose his human values.
Where Were You, Man of God?

A village boy meets his tragic fate when he is sent to the city to work for a rich trader.
Gikor

Nothing is easy for Torik, a shy orphan adopted by his aunt and uncle: he struggles to fit into village life, learn a craft, or find a wife. When Torik does fall in love – with Anjel, a local prostitute – he must face down the disapproval of his narrow-minded community and assert his right to happiness.
A Piece of Sky

The tranquility of a remote Armenian mountain community is disrupted when a group of shepherds affected by the pangs of an evening hunger, decide to butcher and barbecue the sheep of another's that have strayed into their herd. An official inquiry by the city police complicates matters, and questions of law, morality and community only seem to lead to further entanglements.
We Are, Our Mountains

In post-war Armenia, physicist Artyom buries himself in work, haunted by the loss of his wife in WWII, unable to let go of the past. Meanwhile, young Tanya refuses to accept her stepfather, still waiting for her real father, missing in action for years. Their parallel journeys explore memory, loss, and the weight of history—both personal and national. As Artyom grapples with the dilemma of remembering versus forgetting, the film becomes a meditation on identity, time, and the inescapable pull of the past. Partially based on the life of prominent Soviet-Armenian scientist Artem Alikhanyan, Hello, It’s Me! is a deeply reflective exploration of history’s grip on both individuals and nations.
Hello, It's Me!

An aged man falls in love with a woman refugee from Western Armenia. When his beloved dies because of his daughters, in a fury he destroys his only treasure - apple garden.
The Apple Orchard

Real life tragic story of Arakel whose anguish towards lost homeland made him cross Soviet-Turkish border during Stalin era.
Yearning

The members of an amateur theater group share the losses and sorrows of war with Armenian provincial town's inhabitants.
The Song of the Old Days

Small provincial town at the end of the 19th century. Barber Hakob is a passionate pigeon-admirer with them finding his peace of mind and filling the dullness of provincial life with poetry. Soon he is forced to choose his pigeon loft or his daughter's happiness.
White Dreams

This is a story about the fate of a broken family, about the uncertainty of Ruben, who left his family, about attempts to return father, and about a series of funny, but also sad events that bring this dead-end story to a conclusion.
The Tango of Our Childhood

An industrial plant pollutes Lake Sevan with discharges. The public demands to close harmful production. The responsible worker, who is in charge of the plant, understands the requirements of environmentalists, but does not dare to conflict with the management.
Breath

Story of a strong-willed man, Nahapet, who lost his family during the 1915 Genocide is an eternal story of resurrection.
Life Triumphs

Based on Zorayr Khalapyan's novel of the same name, a medical graduate is appointed as a doctor to a village, never losing his human image in spite of Stalinist repression.
Where Were You, Man of God?
Few people know that Komitas wrote letters to the singer, pedagogue Margarit Babayan for ten years from 1905 to 1915. Some of those letters were the basis for creating this film.
It Has Snowed in Spring

The forester, at the cost of becoming a thorn in the eyes of everyone, protects his native nature and the cradle:
Master

Young man is given an opportunity to live his life over again.
Blood

It is the tragic love story of rustic lovers Dylan and Sona. Sona is married off to a rich fellow villager whom she does not like.
This Green, Red World

Following the death of his beloved but unfaithful wife, a sculptor creates a mysterious fountain upon her grave in her honour – one whose water only flows in his presence. As the years pass, his son becomes determined to discover its secret.
The Spring Heghnar

A village boy dreams of being like the hero of the epic after whom he was named.