Yerevan Film Studio

The last collaboration of Artavazd Peleshian and cinematographer Mikhail Vartanov is a film-essay about Armenia's shepherds, about the contradiction and the harmony between man and nature, scored to Vivaldi's Four Seasons.

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.

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

A cruel dragon deprives people of water, but finally the heroes defeat the monster with the help of a magic carpet.

A group of children gets into a dangerous adventure while trying to help the adults to supply water for the village. At any rate, they are courageous and won't give up.

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

Armenians living in Chicago decide to leave the capitalist United States and emigrate to Soviet Armenia after World War II.

Monumental picture exploring the identity and fate of the Armenian nation.