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

Artak has served his military service in the Russian countryside where he meets Valya. But Valya's mother refuses to send her only daughter to “these far highlands, where earthquakes happen all the time”. Artak is forced to ask his contrasting and numerous relatives –Armenian villagers– to visit a remote Russian village to bring a bride to Armenia.
A Bride from the North

Screen version of William Saroyan's play about a family of Armenian immigrants during the Great Depression.
My Heart Is in the Highlands

After becoming a widow at a very young age, Mariam no longer gets married and devotes her whole life to her son, who grows into a spoiled and selfish boy.
Mother's Heart

4th century. The king of Armenia is Arshak II, who is trying to preserve the independence of his land in every way.
Arshak 2

Bolshevik Tsolak Darbinyan is infiltrated into Dashnak Army as a musician of Army music band. Despite the initial personal conflict with band leader Arsen, he is able to win the friendship of young band musicians including Arsen and to persuade them to back him on the eve of the Bolshevik invasion to Armenia.
Guys from the Army Band

The heroine, an employee of the Institute of Ancient Manuscripts, projects the events of her life onto the stories she studies from medieval manuscripts and comes to very instructive conclusions for herself.
And Then You'll Be Back...

An allegorical film about the historical rise and decline of the USSR as reflected through a chess game.
Match

The film takes us back to World War II. Hitler’s soldiers capture the hero of the film and taking the caprice of an SS officer as an opportunity, he saves his own life and his friends thanks to his accurate throws into a basketball hoop.