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Рассвет над озером Ван  
Վանա ծովուն արշալույսը 
Sunrise over Lake Van​

Directed by Artak Igityan, Armenia. Actions in the film revolves around a family octogenarian Karapet Pambukchyan. Emigrants in the fourth generation is almost completely assimilated in the great internationalist boiler called "America." On the one hand the son, rebellious against the attempts by the father to preserve the roots, on the other - the grandson, in love with a Turkish woman ... Karapet whose mother miraculously survived the massacre, trying to save their Americanized descendants of the lost sense of belonging to the homeland, and bring his son back grandson to their national roots. After all, the hope of genetic memory, which can not be destroyed or erased, lives in the blood of every Armenian, wherever he lived. The only way he will be able to save the family from the alienation and decay. The only question is, what price he will be able to do it.​

Намус / Նամուս / Namus

 

Мужчины ⁄ Տղամարդիկ ⁄ Tghamardik

The film is a love story about a young couple, Seyran and Susan, who meet a tragic fate because of patriarchal prejudices.

 

1925, Haykino (in association with Goskinprom, Georgia), drama (based on A.Shirvanzade’s novel), 66 min. (1829 m), b/w, silent
First teatrical screening: 13.04.1926 (Yerevan), 04.10.1926 (Moscow).
Scr./Dir. H.Bek-Nazarov, Dir. of Phot. S.Zabozlaev, Art Dir. V.Sidamon-Eristov, M.Surgunov, Prod.Manag. M.Garagash.
Cast: Barkhudar – H.Abelyan, Mariam – Hasmik (T.Hakobyan), Gyulnaz – O.Maysuryan, Rustam – H.Nersisyan, Hayrapet – A.Avetisyan, Shpanik – N.Manucharyan, Seyran – S.Mkrtchyan, Susan – M.Shahubatyan-Tatieva, Badal – H.Khachanyan, Susambar – L.Alexanyan, Sanam – G.Melikyan, Smbat – A.Martirosyan, storekeeper – M.Garagash.

Year rental: 1972
Production: Armenfilm.
The original title of the film: "ՏՂԱՄԱՐԴԻԿ".
Country: Armenia
Movie Genre: Comedy
Language: Armyansky | Haykakan.
Director of the film "Mens": Edmond Keosayan
Activation of the actors in the film "Tghamardik": Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Frunze Mkrtchyan, Azat Sherents, Avetik Gevorgyan, Armen Ayvazyan, Alla Tumanyan, Laura Gevorkyan Artur Sahakyan, Valentin Podpomogov Sergei Potikyan Rafael Kotanjyan, Zinovy Gerdt​

Танго нашего детства

 Մեր մանկության տանգոն

 Tango of Our Childhood 

О чем шумит река

Ինցու՞ է աղմկում գետը

What's All the Noise of the River About?

The film is about the hard lot of a woman with an extraordinary character, who tries to raise her children and make her husband, who returns from the war with another woman, return to her.

 

1984, Hayfilm Studio, tragicomedy, 89min. (2472m), color, premiere -- 09.02.1985.
Scr./Dir. A.Mkrtchyan, Dir. of Phot. R.Vatinyan, Art Dir. R.P.Babayan, G.Babayan, Compos. T.Mansuryan, Sound Yu.Sayadyan, First Asst.Dir. R.Mkrtchyan, Cam. H.Hovhannisyan, Cost.Des. G.Nalchajyan, Make-up V.Asatryan, Sec.Asst.Dir. N.Haykazyan, S.Ayvazyan, Asst.Cam. H.Sislyan, A.Hambardzumyan, Edit. S.Gabrielyan, Scr.Edit. S.Sarukhanyan, Prod.Manag. V.Badalyan.
Cast: Siranush -- G.Novents, Ruben -- F.(M.)Mkrtchyan, Vardush -- E.Aghamyan, Mesrop -- A.Gasparyan, Ruzan -- N.Baghdasaryan, Armen -- S.Sargsyan, Gagik -- A.Gevorgyan, Ashot -- A.Nalbandyan, Serob -- A.Geodakyan, Arpenik -- M.Karapetyan, Knar -- E.Petrosyan, Yeghish -- R.Mkrtchyan, Svasyan -- V.Movsisyan, Zarzand -- A.Hovhannisyan, Melkonyan -- V.Hakobyan, investigator -- K.Barseghyan.

 

 

Дзори миро - ՁՈՐԻ ՄԻՐՈ-Dzori miro

The film focuses on the life of a frontier village and the lot of one of the villagers -- Artashes Ghambaryan, who turns up abroad after being released from captivity and who dreams of returning to his homeland.

 

1958, Hayfilm Studio, 101 min. (2793 m), b/w
First teatrical screening: 05.10.1959.
Scr. M.Ovchinnikov, Dir. G.Melik-Avagyan, Dir. of Phot. Zh.Vardanyan, Art Dir. R.P.Babayan, Compos. A.Ayvazyan, Sound N.Jalalyan, Asst.Dir. Ye.Tzaturyan, Cam. P.Galstyan, Cost.Des. A.Sargsyan, Visual Effects G.Arakelyan, Make-up Kh.Zahalyan, Edit. G.Meliksetyan, text of the songs by V.(Yu.)Balasan, Scr.Edit. L.Nersisyan, Prod.Manag. R.Saroyan.
Cast: Ghambaryan -- H.Nersisyan, Burnazyan -- A.Avetisyan, Manukyan -- F.Dovlatyan, Seda -- L.Hovhannisyan, Samokhin -- N.Kazakov, Suren -- L.Tukhikyan, Paytzar -- V.Mirijanyan, Ashkhen -- A.Arazyan, Darbinyan -- D.Malyan, Sokolov -- L.Lobov, Bigildeev -- S.Jurabaev, Andreev -- O.Gerasimov, foreign frontier comissar -- A.Kurbanov, Firuza -- A.Adalyan, old man -- A.Nersisyan, irrigator -- L.Chembarsky

The hero of the film loses his family during the 1915 genocide in the Ottoman Empire and fights against Turkish militiamen. Disappointed in his life, Miro finds refuge in Soviet Armenia. His love for a refugee girl sparks his willingness to create a family and start a new life.​

Саят-Нова / Սայաթ-Նովա / Sayat-Nova (1960)

A super-stylized, surreal biography of Armenian troubadour Sayat Nova, whose life is depicted through non-narrative amalgamations of poetic images.

ՀԱՐՍՆԱՑՈՒՆ ՀՅՈՒՍԻՍԻՑ / HARSNACUN HYUSISIC

Musical-lyrical comedy is about how inhabitants of an Armenian village go to another far Armenian village to bring a bride from there..​

Մայրիկ ֆիլմ | Mayrig movie

Ararat​

We and Our Mountains 

Մենք եւ մեր սարերը

Mayrig (Mother) is a 1991 semi-autobiographical film written and directed by French-Armenian filmmaker Henri Verneuil. The film's principal cast includes Claudia Cardinale and Omar Sharif. It is about the struggles of an Armenian family that emigrates to France from Turkey after theArmenian Genocide of 1915.

Ararat is a 2002 Canadian-French dramahistorical film written and directed by Atom Egoyan and starring Charles Aznavour,Christopher Plummer, David Alpay, Arsinée Khanjian, Eric Bogosian, Bruce Greenwoodand Elias Koteas. It is based loosely on thedefense of Van in 1915 during the Armenian Genocide, an event that is disputed to this day by the Government of Turkey. In addition to exploring the human impact of that specific historical event, the film also examines the nature of truth and its representation through art.​

We and Our Mountains (Armenian: Մենք եւ մեր սարերը) is a (1969) Armenian film , directed by Henrik Malyan and starring Azat Sherents, Frunzik Mkrtchyan and Sos Sargsyan

Zare/ԶԱՐԵ 

At the time of the Russian Revolution, in a Yazidi Kurdish village in Armenia, a young shepherd Seydo and his girlfriend Zare struggle for their right to a happy love.​

Grikor/ԳԻՔՈՐ

Gikor is a 1982 Armenian drama film based on Hovhannes Tumanyan's poem of the same name. In USSR film was released on 15 May 1982. The film was directed bySergey Israelyan.

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