Zangezur (film)
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| Music by | Aram Khachaturian[2] |
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Running time | 89 minutes |
| Country | Soviet Union |
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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 (present-day Syunik), 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.[1] The screenplay was originally written by Axel Bakunts, before his arrest in 1936 during the Great Purge.[1] The film score was composed by Aram Khachaturian.[2] For the film, director Beknazarian was awarded the Stalin Prize, 2nd degree, in 1941.[3]
Cast
- Hrachia Nersisyan - Hakobyan
- Avet Avetisyan - Sparapet (based on Garegin Nzhdeh)
- Hasmik - Agyul
- David Malyan - Makich
- Gurgen Janibekyan - Sako
- 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
- A. Arakelyan - Aznar
- Bella Isahakyan - Anush
- Grigory Margaryan - soldier
- Mikael Garagash - Samson
- Yunis Nuri - Azeri partisan
- Vladimir Tsoppi - English major
References
- ^ a b c Shakarian, Pietro A. (2025). Anastas Mikoyan: An Armenian Reformer in Khrushchev's Kremlin. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. p. 267n225. ISBN 978-0253073556.
- ^ a b Yuzefovich, Victor A. (1985). Aram Khachaturyan. Translated by Kournokoff, Nicholas; Bobrov, Vladimir. New York: Sphinx Press. p. 86. ISBN 0-8236-8658-2.
- ^ Rollberg, Peter (2009). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. p. 96. ISBN 978-0810860728.