Mexican Diplomats

Five Right in the Target

Vardan, a victim of misunderstanding, barely avoids becoming an accomplice in a crime. The first film on a contemporary theme from the Hayfilm (Armenkino) film studio about the educational role of the Red Army in shaping the character of conscripts.

Krder-Ezidner

The film is about the establishment of a kolkhoz (collective farm) in a Kurdish village in Soviet Armenia.

Zangezur

The film is about the civil war in the Zangezur (Syunik) province of Armenia in the early 1920s. The last Dashnak battalions headed by Sparapet Nzhdeh still opposed both the incursion of Red Army and the local Bolshevik partisans.

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.

Sevan's Fishermen

The plot is based on the struggle of red partisan-fishermen for the establishment of Soviet order in Armenia.

Karo

A schoolboy, Karo, gets involved into the struggle between Communists and Dashnaks during the establishment of a Soviet regime in Armenia.

Looking for the Addressee

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.

Anahit

The prince falls in love with an ordinary girl and marries her. Later, when enemies capture the prince, it's his young wife who gets him out of trouble.

Nazar the Brave

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

The House on the Volcano

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

Zare

Immediately prior to the Russian Revolution, a young shepherd Seydo and his girlfriend Zare struggle for their right to a happy love in a Yazidi Kurdish village in Russian Armenia.

01-99

Drunkard Garsevan is supposed to bring wine for testing to specialist Poghosyan. On the road he drinks the wine and is picked up by two young men who think that he is a victim of road accident.

The Song of First Love

Very popular Soviet Armenian musical about a talented singer, spoiled by his success.

Honor

Based on Alexander Shirvanzade's 1885 novel of the same name, the film denounces the despotic rites and customs of Caucasian families. It is widely recognized as the first Armenian feature film.

Khaspush

The movie is about the suppressed revolt of "khaspushes", Persian peasants and craftsmen in 1891.

Spring in Kolkhoz

A silent short film showcasing the tensions and disparities between different social classes within an Armenian rural community.