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Dustre / Դուստրը (1942)
Character: N/A
One of the few Armenian fictions of the 1940s, this parable about the aftermath of World War II reveals the director's deeply humanistic vision, who finds the epic and the universal in minor and private subjects.
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Արյան Դեմ Արյուն (1941)
Character: N/A
During the Great Patriotic War, a blacksmith grandfather, and grandson, are repairing a tank when suddenly the enemy attacks.
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Призраки покидают вершины (1955)
Character: N/A
To climb Mount Kamir-Sar, whose inaccessible summit, according to the findings of young scientist Artashes Malyan, contains a rare deposit of mercury and silver, an expedition led by Malyan is organized despite the opposition of the venerable Professor Daniel-bek. Information about the daring expedition of Soviet scientists reaches Alvarets da Cortez, the owner of one of Europe's largest chemical companies. In his youth, he visited this peak and, in order to hide the discovered metals, threw the Russian scientist Shelagin into the abyss, silencing Daniel-bek. Foreign intelligence is tasked with disrupting the expedition...
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Գիքոր (1934)
Character: Hambo
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.
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Արևածագից առաջ (1961)
Character: old man Artin
Based on the short stories of A. Bakunts "Girl Honar", "Letter to the Russian Tsar", "Orange", "White Horse". About the fate of the young teacher Alexander, who came to the Armenian village and sided with the Bolsheviks in their struggle against class enemies.
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Գողը (1931)
Character: N/A
An engineer steals the the sketches of a new device from a worker.
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Լույս և ստվերներ (1933)
Character: Kulak
About dekulakization, people's losses as a result of it and their feelings.
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Փեսատես (1954)
Character: Вартан
Arto's watch factory releases non-operating watches through the fault of the quality controller. One of these watches causes a lot of trouble for the family of his beloved, Armenuhi. A dinner in honor of the groom turns into a severe censure of a bad workman.
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Մեքսիկական դիպլոմատներ (1932)
Character: N/A
By order of the Prime Minister, two hairdressers will serve as foreign diplomats for a while. Incredible adventures and fun are guaranteed.
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Սևանի ձկնորսները (1939)
Character: Old Hanes
The plot is based on the struggle of red partisan-fishermen for the establishment of Soviet order in Armenia.
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Ինչու է աղմկում գետը (1959)
Character: Atanes Ghambaryan
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.
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Անահիտ (1947)
Character: Nureddin
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.
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Yerku gisher (1934)
Character: Benoyan
The film is about the Bolshevik revolt in one of the Armenian Dashnak detachments.
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Արարատյան դաշտի աղջիկը (1949)
Character: репатриант
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.
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Հասցեատիրոջ որոնումները (1955)
Character: Gasparyan
Products of poor quality released by a sewing factory get to a department store and are sold because the chief engineer of the factory and the head of the respective section of the department store are close friends. Love for a woman makes the head of the department store realize his mistake.
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Kikos (1931)
Character: Aram
A naive peasant appears by turns during the Civil War in two hostile camps and finally chooses the Red Army.
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Արևի զավակը (1933)
Character: N/A
The film tells us about the development of the cotton industry in Armenia.
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Давид-Бек (1944)
Character: David Bek
The Armenian national hero, David Bek, leads a major Armenian uprising against Safavid Persia in the Syunik region in the 18th century.
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Նամուս (1926)
Character: Rustam
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.
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Из-за чести (1956)
Character: Андреас Элизбаров
The millionaire’s daughter can't stand the disgrace, when learns that his father made his fortune by stealing from his former companion.
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Տունը հրաբխի վրա (1929)
Character: Petros
An aging drilling foreman recounts the brutal suppression of an oil workers’ strike in pre-revolutionary Baku.
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Զարե (1926)
Character: Saydo
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.
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Զանգեզուր (1938)
Character: Hakopyan
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.
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Курды-Езиды (1933)
Character: Jalal
The film is about the establishment of a kolkhoz (collective farm) in a Kurdish village in Soviet Armenia.
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Առաջին Սիրո Երգը (1958)
Character: Varunts
Very popular Soviet Armenian musical about a talented singer, spoiled by his success.
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Սիրտն է երգում (1957)
Character: Гариб Гарибян
Blind singer immigrant finds love and happiness in his native Armenia.
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Խասփուշ (1928)
Character: Rza
The movie is about the suppressed revolt of "khaspushes", Persian peasants and craftsmen in 1891.
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Տժվժիկ (1962)
Character: Nerses-akhpar
Rich Nikoghos-agha buys some beef liver for Nerses-akhpar's family. Although months have passed, Nikoghos-agha does not hesitate to remind his "charity" to Nerses-akhpar every time they met.
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Պեպո (1935)
Character: Pepo
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.
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