Tatyana Makhmuryan

Pepo

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.

David Bek

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

The House on the Volcano

An aging drilling foreman recounts the brutal suppression of an oil workers’ strike in pre-revolutionary Baku.

Gikor

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.

The Ascent

After the establishment of Soviet rule in Armenia, the Dashnaks stir up a rebellion , which fails...

Light and Shadows

About dekulakization, people's losses as a result of it and their feelings.

Meeting

Komsomol member Mansume Musaeva graduates from university and goes to work in the oil industry in Baku with her husband. The couple engage in cultural and educational work among the backward population, especially among women. They are opposed by old oil workers. At the same time, Efendiev, the head of the militia, approaches Mansume and tries to win her heart. Efendiev tries to subdue the woman by force. During the fight, the woman recognizes in him the commander of the punitive detachment, the Musavat officer who killed her father and burned down the village. The Shinsakhkom organs intervene in the case. In order to save himself, Efendiev sets fire to the oil tower, but he himself dies in the fire.