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Hello, That’s Me! / Barev, yes em (1966) Frunze Dovlatyan, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Rolan Bykov, Natalya Fateeva
Artyom Manvelyan is a famous physicist and founder of a cosmology laboratory in Armenia. Read More »
The Color of Pomegranates (1969) Sayat Nova
One of cinema’s greatest masterpieces, Sergei Parajanov’s “The Color of Pomegranates,” Read More »
Sour Grape / Hndzan (1974) Bagrat Oganesyan, A. Isahakyan, Sos Sargsyan, H. Azizyan
Far behind the lines Vahe receives the news of his father’s death. Read More »
Komitas (1989) Don Askarian, Samvel Ovasapian, Margarita Woskanjan, Omig Saadetian
The film is dedicated to the Armenian monk and genius composer Komitas, and the 2 million victims on his people in Turkey in 1915. Read More »
Avetik (1992) Don Askarian, Alik Asatryan, Mikhail Stepanyan, Karen Dzhanibekyan
Set around the central figure of an Armenian trying to forge a life in the West the film offers a series of impressions of Armenian history. Read More »
On the Old Roman Road (2003) Don Askarian, Sylvia Gelton, Pavel Khachatrian, Stepan Shahinyan, Drama
Also Wano, carpet-seller, will receive his second, secret life, as light-footed dead-angel for the Turkish politician, as charming terrorist, as loner and successful lover. He prepared the “liquidation” of the Turkish consuls in Rotterdam, and executed them.
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I’m Going to Change My Name / Alaverdi (2012) Mariya Saakyan, Arina Adju, Mariya Atlas, Evgeniy Tsyganov, Drama
Evridika, a neglected teenager, lives with her mother Sona in Alaverdi, a small Armenian town. While Sona, a conductor of a world famous choir, is often away, Evridika struggles with her blossoming sexuality, suicidal thoughts and the search for the father she has never known. Each day she drowns deeper inside herself and sees no reasons to live until she meets Pyotr, Sona’s ex-lover. He will become the key to Evridika’s new perception of the world.
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