Hamo Bek-Nazaryan Movies

The legend of the Suram Fortress.

Based on the popular comedy novel, as well as many international anecdotes about Nasreddin Hodja, a witty Muslim traveler.

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.

Pastor Talnoх furiously urges the flock to fight temptations, but he himself becomes a victim of temptation. In his house appears Satan, pushing the hero to theft and spiritual fall.

Immediately prior to the Russian Revolution, a young shepherd Seydo and his girlfriend Zare struggle for their right to a happy love in a Yazidi Kurdish village in Russian Armenia.

The Armenian national hero, David Bek, leads a major Armenian uprising against Safavid Persia in the Syunik region in the 18th century.

An aging drilling foreman recounts the brutal suppression of an oil workers’ strike in pre-revolutionary Baku.

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

Armenians living in Chicago decide to leave the capitalist United States and emigrate to Soviet Armenia after World War II.

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 to paying-off his honour.

The movie is about the suppressed revolt of "khaspushes", Persian peasants and craftsmen in 1891.

Namus (Armenian: Նամուս, meaning "honor") is a 1925 silent film by Hamo Beknazarian, based on Alexander Shirvanzade's 1885 novel of the same name, which denounces the despotic rites and customs of Caucasian families. It is widely recognized as the first Armenian feature film.

Love, adventure, and revolutionary uprising in 19th century Georgia.