A Bride from the North

A Bride from the North

1975 · 75 min · ★ 6.4 · Comedy, Romance

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.

Directed by Nerses Hovhannisyan · Written by Zhora Arutyunyan

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