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.
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.
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.
Monumental picture exploring the identity and fate of the Armenian nation.
Armenians living in Chicago decide to leave the capitalist United States and emigrate to Soviet Armenia after World War II.
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.
Comical tale about how the coward Nazar who, as a joke of fate, appears to preside over the throne.
A girl, working in a German commandant's office, saves two wounded Russian pilots sacrificing her own life.
The Armenian national hero, David Bek, leads a major Armenian uprising against Safavid Persia in the Syunik region in the 18th century.
Five friends are trapped in a mountain ravine with no food and water.
The meeting of a journalist and a doctor revives the memories of the war where they had first met.
A cruel dragon deprives people of water, but finally the heroes defeat the monster with the help of a magic carpet.
Patriotic film from 1941 of Armenian men being called up to fight for the Red Army
