The Seasons

The Seasons 1975

6.90

The last collaboration of Artavazd Peleshian and cinematographer Mikhail Vartanov is a film-essay about Armenia's shepherds, about the contradiction and the harmony between man and nature, scored to Vivaldi's Four Seasons.

1975

The Secret of the Mountain Lake

The Secret of the Mountain Lake 1954

3.50

A group of children gets into a dangerous adventure while trying to help the adults to supply water for the village. At any rate, they are courageous and won't give up.

1954

A Bride from the North

A Bride from the North 1975

4.60

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.

1975

The Magic Carpet

The Magic Carpet 1948

1

A cruel dragon deprives people of water, but finally the heroes defeat the monster with the help of a magic carpet.

1948

David Bek

David Bek 1944

6.00

The Armenian national hero, David Bek, leads a major Armenian uprising against Safavid Persia in the Syunik region in the 18th century.

1944

We

We 1969

6.20

Monumental picture exploring the identity and fate of the Armenian nation.

1969

Our Century

Our Century 1983

5.90

A man paves his own way to his own soul through an intellectual quest, tragedies of nations and personal drama. The road moving through the cosmic distances is a flight into one's internal world. This flight and this drama are revealed in this philosophical film-poem.

1983

The Second Caravan

The Second Caravan 1950

6.00

Armenians living in Chicago decide to leave the capitalist United States and emigrate to Soviet Armenia after World War II.

1950

Steps / Qayler

Steps / Qayler 1962

1

The meeting of a journalist and a doctor revives the memories of the war where they had first met.

1962

Dark Is the Night

Dark Is the Night 1945

4.40

A girl, working in a German commandant's office, saves two wounded Russian pilots sacrificing her own life.

1945

Nazar the Brave

Nazar the Brave 1940

6.00

Comical tale about how the coward Nazar who, as a joke of fate, appears to preside over the throne.

1940

Family of Patriots

Family of Patriots 1941

1

Patriotic film from 1941 of Armenian men being called up to fight for the Red Army

1941