Zangezur (film)

Zangezur
Directed by
Written by
Starring
Cinematography
Music byAram Khachaturian
Production
company
Distributed byArmenkino
Release date
  • May 23, 1938 (1938-05-23)
Running time
89 minutes
CountrySoviet Union
Languages

Zangezur is a 1938 Soviet Armenian war film by Hamo Beknazarian. The propaganda film is about the Dashnak opposition to the incursion of the Red Army and the local Bolshevik partisans in the Armenian province of Zangezur (present-day Syunik) at the time of Sovietization.

Cast

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  • Hrachia Nersisyan - Akopyan
  • Avet Avetisyan - Sparapet (based on Garegin Nzhdeh)
  • Hasmik - Agyul
  • David Malyan - Makich
  • Gurgen Dzhanibekyan - Saco
  • Gurgen Gabrielyan - Armen
  • Grigoriy Avetyan - deaf old man
  • Gegham Harutyunyan - Samvel
  • Andrei Kostrichkin - Denikin Colonel Markov
  • Ivan Chuvelev - Nikita
  • Galust Sululikyan - Atyun Aper
  • Amasi Martirosyan - Dashnak officer
  • Murad Kostanyan - Dashnak officer
  • Haykasar Minasaryan - Gusan
  • Arakelyan - Aznar
  • Bela Isaakyan - Anush
  • Grigory Margaryan - soldier
  • Michael Garagash - Samson
  • Eunice Nuri - guerrilla
  • Vladimir Tsoppi - English major
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