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A man paves his own way to his own soul through an intellectual quest, tragedies of nations and personal drama. The road moving through the cosmic distances is a flight into one's internal world. This flight and this drama are revealed in this philosophical film-poem.
Apr 1983
Jun 1956
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.
Nov 1975
A cruel dragon deprives people of water, but finally the heroes defeat the monster with the help of a magic carpet.
Jan 1948
The Armenian national hero, David Bek, leads a major Armenian uprising against Safavid Persia in the Syunik region in the 18th century.
Feb 1944
Armenians living in Chicago decide to leave the capitalist United States and emigrate to Soviet Armenia after World War II.
Dec 1950
To climb Mount Kamir-Sar, whose inaccessible summit, according to the findings of young scientist Artashes Malyan, contains a rare deposit of mercury and silver, an expedition led by Malyan is organized despite the opposition of the venerable Professor Daniel-bek. Information about the daring expedition of Soviet scientists reaches Alvarets da Cortez, the owner of one of Europe's largest chemical companies. In his youth, he visited this peak and, in order to hide the discovered metals, threw the Russian scientist Shelagin into the abyss, silencing Daniel-bek. Foreign intelligence is tasked with disrupting the expedition...
Jul 1955
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.
Jan 1975
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.
Nov 1954
A girl, working in a German commandant's office, saves two wounded Russian pilots sacrificing her own life.
May 1945
Monumental picture exploring the identity and fate of the Armenian nation.
Feb 1969
The meeting of a journalist and a doctor revives the memories of the war where they had first met.
Jan 1962
Comical tale about how the coward Nazar who, as a joke of fate, appears to preside over the throne.
Jan 1940
Five friends are trapped in a mountain ravine with no food and water.
Jul 1956
Patriotic film from 1941 of Armenian men being called up to fight for the Red Army
Jul 1941