Zangezur (1938)
Զանգեզուր
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.
- Date of release
- 1938-05-23
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 29m
- Genres
- War, Drama
- Director
- Hamo Bek-Nazaryan
Casting
- Hrachia Nersisyan — Hakopyan
- Avet Avetisyan — Sparapet
- Hasmik Agopyan — Agyul
- Davit Malyan — Makich
- Gurgen Janibekyan — Sako
- Gurgen Gabrielyan — Armen
- Grigor Avetyan — Deaf Man
- Gegham Harutyunyan — Samvel
- Haykasar — Gusan
- A. Arakelyan — Aznar
- Tsolak Amerikyan — Hatyun-Aper
- B. Isahakyan — Anush
Interesting facts
Zangezur is a 1938 Soviet Armenian war film by Hamo Beknazarian. A propaganda film released on the eve of World War II, it depicts the 1921 anti-Bolshevik uprising in Zangezur, in which Dashnak forces clashed with the Red Army and Armenian Bolshevik partisans.
Production
According to Ashot Hovhannisian, the idea for the film was conceived by Anastas Mikoyan. The screenplay was originally written by Axel Bakunts, before his arrest in 1936 during the Great Purge. The film score was composed by Aram Khachaturian. For the film, director Beknazarian was awarded the Stalin Prize, 2nd degree, in 1941.
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