Avet Avetisyan Movies

Two friends, Shor and Shorshor, both idlers and drunkards, have many comical adventures and get into lot of trouble.

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...

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...

A naive peasant appears by turns during the Civil War in two hostile camps and finally chooses the Red Army.

Patriotic film from 1941 of Armenian men being called up to fight for the Red Army

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...

The hero endures the discomfort caused by the new boots in order not to appear a retrograde in the eyes of "high society."

The film is an adaptation of the life of 18th-century Armenian poet and troubadour Sayat-Nova.

Tigran, the head of "kolkhoz", is working without strain, reckoning with the responsiveness and support of neighboring collective farms. To punish...

One of the few Armenian fictions of the 1940s, this parable about the aftermath of World War II reveals the director's deeply humanistic vision, who...

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...

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

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

The first banned film of Armenian cinema. The further screening of the film was forbidden in Soviet Armenia because of the scenes in a brothel. The...

Atanes Ghambaryan, resident of Armenian border village, after the captivity during the World War II, turns up abroad in Turkey and dreams of...

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,...

Vardan experiences a period of despair, losing trust in people and believing they use others for personal gain.

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

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

A detachment of Bolsheviks impedes the progress of a punitive detachment through the gorge and prevents it from suppressing a revolt.