The Color of Pomegranates

The Color of Pomegranates 1969

7.40

The life of the revered 18th-century Armenian poet and musician Sayat-Nova. Portraying events in the life of the artist from childhood up to his death, the movie addresses in particular his relationships with women, including his muse. The production tells Sayat-Nova's dramatic story by using both his poems and largely still camerawork, creating a work hailed as revolutionary by Mikhail Vartanov.

1969

Hello, It's Me!

Hello, It's Me! 1966

5.20

Artyom (Armen Dzhigarkhanyan) is a scientist who buries himself in his work after the woman he loves dies during the war. He is informed of his sweetheart's death by a young woman, and soon love blossoms between the lonely doctor and the emerging beauty. This is the big-screen debut of Margarita Terekhova in the popular film that was seen by over 20 million in the USSR.

1966

A Piece of Sky

A Piece of Sky 1980

4.40

Nothing is easy for Torik, a shy orphan adopted by his aunt and uncle: he struggles to fit into village life, learn a craft, or find a wife. When Torik does fall in love – with Anjel, a local prostitute – he must face down the disapproval of his narrow-minded community and assert his right to happiness.

1980

The Men

The Men 1973

5.10

Vazgen, Sako, Suren and Aram are taxi drivers and close friends. When Aram fell in hopeless love with Karine, other three decide to help their friend.

1973

The Song of the Old Days

The Song of the Old Days 1982

2.00

The members of an amateur theater group share the losses and sorrows of war with Armenian provincial town's inhabitants.

1982

Star of Hope

Star of Hope 1978

5.50

Two part film about David Bek and Mkhitar Sparapet's major Armenian uprising against Safavid Persia in the Syunik region in the 18th century.

1978

We Are, Our Mountains

We Are, Our Mountains 1969

6.00

The tranquility of a remote Armenian mountain community is disrupted when a group of shepherds affected by the pangs of an evening hunger, decide to butcher and barbecue the sheep of another's that have strayed into their herd. An official inquiry by the city police complicates matters, and questions of law, morality and community only seem to lead to further entanglements.

1969

Looking for the Addressee

Looking for the Addressee 1955

1

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.

1955

Life

Life 1994

6.10

Poetic essay about the beginning of life from labor pains and birth and about its symbolic meaning.

1994

Triangle

Triangle 1967

4.60

The movie tells the life story and friendship of five blacksmiths in town of Leninakan during the war and the years preceding it - as told by the son of one of the blacksmiths.

1967

Gikor

Gikor 1982

4.80

A village boy meets his tragic fate when he is sent to the city to work for a rich trader.

1982

The Father

The Father 1973

3.70

Builder Hovsep Manukyan's big and restless family hosts his old father Poghos who is forced to move from his native village. Many good and bad, funny and sad, important and unimportant events take place in the family of Hovsep, that help the older and the young to share their most valuable experience - culture of life, co-existence and devotion.

1973

There you are, butter week!

There you are, butter week! 1985

8.00

A clever boy punishes a greedy landlord. Based on the Armenian folk tale by Hovhannes Tumanyan, "Barekendan" (Բարեկենդան).

1985

The Kite Day

The Kite Day 1986

1

A story about young Annie who's taking her parents divorce very hard.

1986

Sour Grape

Sour Grape 1974

4.50

Two years after receiving news of his father’s death in WWII a young boy continues to wait for trains from the front. The boy lives with his crippled uncle rather than with his mother, who has remarried and has another child. Then one day the father returns.

1974

Saroyan Brothers

Saroyan Brothers 1969

1

1920. Last days of the first Armenian Republic. Armenian Army fights on two fronts: war with Turkish army in the west, and Red Army incursion and Bolshevik mutiny in the northeast. Hayk Saroyan returns to his native provincial town from Russia to assume a minor post at Dashnak Army command center. His brother Gevorg, captain at the same command center, is a real patriot prefering death to "eternal exile", army power to relegious mercifullness. Very soon a suspicion creeps inside him: his beloved brother is Bolshevik spy.

1969

Islands

Islands 1987

3.80

A bunch of stories, portraits and images about people of amazing destinies, including Parajanov and Tarkovsky, merging into a non-traditional and polemic image of Armenia.

1987