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Edgar Baghdasaryan

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Biography

Edgar Baghdasaryan was born on March 8, 1964 in Yerevan, USSR [now Armenia]. He is a director and writer, known for The Simon's Way (2017), Lengthy Night (2018) and From Ararat to Zion (2009). Graduated from Armenian Agriculture Academy in 1985. After military service worked in state companies “Armgosestrada” and “Armconcert” as mass event director. Since 1988 is working as assistant director at “Armenfilm” film studio.

Known For

Yasha and Leonid Brezhnev
7.0

Yasha recently retired after serving many years at a factory, with a highlight of his career being a delegate of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1976. Yet his future is left unknown when he emerges in new realities that he finds difficult to accept. The world has changed after the collapse of the Soviet Union, yet he tries to hold on to what once was. Thus enters former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. Appearing like Yasha’s alter ego, he guides Yasha, giving amusing commentary and voicing what Yasha should say or do. Brezhnev’s presence gives way for more historical leaders that Yasha idolises to arrive. Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, Josip Broz Tito and Erich Honecker, and even the African dictator Jean Bedel-Bokassa all make an appearance! When Yasha takes an oath of loyalty to them, this creates trouble for his family.

Yasha and Leonid Brezhnev

2024
The Path of Our Dream
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The Path of Our Dream (Armenian: Մեր երազանքի ճանապարհը) is an Armenian drama. The film premiered in the Armenian theaters on December 19, 2015.[1] The film consists of 7 parts.[2] Each part has its own storyline and director. Some parts of the movie are shot in Turkey and France. Edgar Baghdasaryan's film titled The Path of Simon won the main prize at the European festival of short films.[3] The Moscow premiere of the film was on 6 February, 2018.

The Path of Our Dream

2017
Zemlyak
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The story takes place in Karabakh mountains in 1992, in the times of Armenian-Azerbaijani war. A small group of Armenian soldiers is working their way through the snow to reach the necessary point. One of them is so exhausted, that he can't keep on going. He is obliged to stay and wait for the reinforcement. He is left alone with the body of the Azerbaijanian soldier, who was shot by his companion. Checking his I.D., he discovers that they are from the same town, that they are countrymen.

Zemlyak

2010
Taxi Eli Lav A
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Feature film created by 10 famous Armenian film directors and scriptwriters. The movie consists of 10 short stories lasting about seven minutes each, "10 life stories" beaded like "pearls" on an "endless thread" called Yerevan. Each story is shot in a definite genre and differs from the rest by its concept as well as signature, yet all the stories integrate into a bright mosaic, reflecting nowadays Yerevan life.

Taxi Eli Lav A

2009
Zako
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Zako - was the name German soldiers gave to the Soviet Armenian painter, Sargis Mangasaryan. Thanks to his creative gifts, Zako prevailed and survived the hell of WWII military camps.Zako endured by drawing portraits of his tormentors. He tried to escape several times, but each time landed in another harsher camp. After the war, he risked exile to Siberia, as he was a prisoner of war, he was considered a traitor to the Soviet Union. He created several huge portraits of Stalin to earn him passage home to Soviet Armenia.Some years later, in 1956, Zako visits the famous Picasso exhibition at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow with his friends. He realized how undeveloped his portrait drawings had remained all those years. Although he was fighting for his physical freedom throughout, his artistic evolution was stunted within the system.

Zako

From Ararat to Zion
8.0

The mosaic of Christian pilgrimage to the Holy Land has been shaped during two thousand years. The pilgrims have brought along their stories and left their sacred memories here. The film authors are trying to read the essential pages of those stories and reveal some precious aspects of self-identity. They follow the footprints of Armenian pilgrims between two focal points of human history- from the summit of Mount Ararat to Zion, from A to Z.

From Ararat to Zion

2009
Lengthy Night
6.7

The dramatic fate of heroes of different eras is associated with wolf and spherical stone. The fate pursues those stone-owners.

Lengthy Night

2018
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10.0

Children are playing war games.

Khagher

1990
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Relatives live on 2 sides of tightly closed borders their communication challenged by the gorge between them. To pass 0.3km and meet his grandfather Simon must go 11 000km. It's a story about the influence of politics on human destinies.

The Simon's Way

Mariam
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A lonely teacher at a college for deaf and dumb children started to hear a strange pitched noise that breaks the windows.

Mariam

2005
Yerevanilla.am
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Yerevan, like all cities around the world, has its secrets filled with humor, drama, and unexpected heroes.

Yerevanilla.am

2024
Christmas Roast
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Young, full of energy and not deprived of acting talent, Aram is busy every single day with his own business - the execution of court decisions, mainly related to unpaid bank loans. In simple terms, he takes from unfortunate people what they could not pay. He is quite content with his career-driven life.

Christmas Roast

2020