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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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Ղուլը (1928)
Character: N/A
The first banned film of Armenian cinema. The further screening of the film was forbidden in Soviet Armenia because of the scenes in a brothel. The People's Commissariat of Education banned the screening of the film in Armenia, citing the fact that the events depicted in the film are characteristic of the period of Dashnaktsutyun's rule and that in 1927-1928 the screening of such a film cannot play an educational role.
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Գիքոր (1934)
Character: Bazaz Artem
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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Կարո (1937)
Character: Colonel
A schoolboy, Karo, gets involved into the struggle between Communists and Dashnaks during the establishment of a Soviet regime in Armenia.
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Կոլխոզային գարուն (1929)
Character: Brigadier
A silent short film showcasing the tensions and disparities between different social classes within an Armenian rural community.
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Շոր և Շորշոր (1926)
Character: Vardan
Two friends, Shor and Shorshor, both idlers and drunkards, have many comical adventures and get into lot of trouble.
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Քաջ Նազար (1940)
Character: Sako
Comical tale about how the coward Nazar who, as a joke of fate, appears to preside over the throne.
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Մորգանի խնամին (1970)
Character: Пётр Иванович Минтоев
About a bankrupt millionaire who dreams of becoming related to the Morgan family. The action takes place after the revolution, in Paris, among Armenian immigrants.
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Քաղաքավարության վնասները (1964)
Character: N/A
The hero endures the discomfort caused by the new boots in order not to appear a retrograde in the eyes of "high society."
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Ինչու է աղմկում գետը (1959)
Character: Burnazyan, kolkhoz director
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: Bahatur
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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Արարատյան դաշտի աղջիկը (1949)
Character: Авет Вартанович Мартиросян
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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Kikos (1931)
Character: Murad
A naive peasant appears by turns during the Civil War in two hostile camps and finally chooses the Red Army.
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Давид-Бек (1944)
Character: Melik Frangyul
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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Սայաթ-Նովա (1960)
Character: Avet Agha
The film is an adaptation of the life of 18th-century Armenian poet and troubadour Sayat-Nova.
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Լեռնային արշավ (1939)
Character: N/A
A detachment of Bolsheviks impedes the progress of a punitive detachment through the gorge and prevents it from suppressing a revolt.
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Նամուս (1926)
Character: Hayrapet
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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Զարե (1926)
Character: Slo
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: Sparapet
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: Bro
The film is about the establishment of a kolkhoz (collective farm) in a Kurdish village in Soviet Armenia.
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Խասփուշ (1928)
Character: Head of police
The movie is about the suppressed revolt of "khaspushes", Persian peasants and craftsmen in 1891.
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Պեպո (1935)
Character: Arutin Kirakozovich Zimzimov
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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Փլուզում (1959)
Character: N/A
Vardan experiences a period of despair, losing trust in people and believing they use others for personal gain.
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