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It Was Like That, But It Won't Be

The Girl of Ararat Valley

Tigran, the head of "kolkhoz", is working without strain, reckoning with the responsiveness and support of neighboring collective farms. To punish Tigran's dependency, his lover Anush, the head of Jeyranik collective farm, the first boycots him refusing to help. After being fired during the review meeting, Tigran recognizes his failure and goes for work in construction of local hydro-power station.

The killer of the father

Nunu and Iago are in love with each other. The married guard Girgola wants to get hold of the woman. Girgola gets Iago arrested and makes Nunu marry his retarded brother. On one occasion he finds the woman alone and rapes her. Nunu jumps in the river to commit suicide but gets saved by Iago’s friends. Iago escapes from jail, but Girgola attacks his hideout and haves him killed together with his friends. Girgola also kills Nunu’s old father and accuses Nunu of the murder. Nunu is tied to a pole and dies in the exile.

Housewarming

A musical comedy about the adventures of a few students in Soviet Uzbekistan

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.

Land of Nairi

For his first feature-length documentary, Bek-Nazarian uses both archival footage and re-enacted scenes to create a historical and poetic fresco about the transformation of the Nairi province into a flourishing Soviet republic.

Nasreddin in Khujand, or the Enchanted Prince

Based on the popular comedy novel, as well as many international anecdotes about Nasreddin Hodja, a witty Muslim traveler.

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.

The Lost Treasure

During the Civil War, a long time friends Ilya, Tanya and Tevdore decide to find the treasure, which is hidden by the counter revolutionists. After many precarious efforts the disguised friends manage somehow to penetrate the enemy’s camp and attend their leadership’s party. Tanya enchants the enemy Commander Kleshchuk and gets hold of the key of his apartment. The friends steal the treasure, baffle Kleshchuk’s pursuit and return the treasure to the government.

The House on the Volcano

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

Igdenbu

Based on Nikolai Lovtsov's story "The Contraband Trust". About events in the village of gold hunters in the Far East. The action takes place in 1923.

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.

Dark Is the Night

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

The Surami Fortress

The legend of the Suram Fortress.

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.

Natela

Love, adventure, and revolutionary uprising in 19th century Georgia.

Battleship Potemkin

A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing support, which brought on a police massacre.

Toilet: A Love Story

A woman threatens to leave her husband unless he installs a toilet in their home. To win back her love and respect, he heads out on a journey to fight against the backward society.