23 Films & TV Shows Set In Armenia
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Guardians
🇦🇲 Armenia 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan 🇷🇺 Russia The 1980sSquad of Soviet Superheroes — During the Cold War, an organization called "Patriot" created a super-hero squad, which includes members of multiple soviet republics. For years, the heroes had to hide their identities, but in hard times they must show themselves again.
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The Promise
🇫🇷 France 🇦🇲 Armenia 🇹🇷 Turkey The 1910sEmpires fall. Love survives. — Set during the last days of the Ottoman Empire, a love triangle develops between Mikael, a brilliant medical student, the beautiful and sophisticated artist Ana, and Chris, a renowned American journalist based in Paris.
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If Only Everyone
🇦🇲 Armenia 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan The 2000sA beautiful girl named Sasha from Russia comes to Armenia. Born between Russian father and Armenian mother, Sasha is searching for the grave of her father who died in the Karabakh War. Karabakh, which was the territory of the Azerbaijani Republic during the Soviet Union’s collapse, has many Armenian residents. At the time, Armenians demanded their independence from Azerbaijani Republic and the subsequent conflict caused heavy casualties. Many Russian soldiers also lost their lives in the war. The conflict is still going on. This film is a postscript to a historical event occurred in the early 1990s and about a still ongoing conflict. In the scene that camera quietly crosses the border from Armenia, the director presents an image of each side of the people communicating with one another despite their own wounds instead of one pointing a gun at the other side.
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Bonded Parallels
🇳🇴 Norway 🇦🇲 Armenia The 1980s The 2000s"The Armenian film Bonded Parallels tells two intersecting stories: a mother who gives life to a child at the cost of her own and a daughter who repeats a similar love story that once resulted in her own birth. The two ‘bonded parallel’ stories provide a close look at two different societies in entirely different time frames, and in doing that they bring unexpected similarities to the surface. On one side, there is the story of Hanna, who lives in a small village in Norway during World War II, waiting for her husband. Meanwhile, she meets Arakel, a Russian prisoner of war of Armenian origin and gives him asylum, an event that inevitably leads to a love affair. As for daughter Laura, love comes from a disobeying student. Her story takes place during the 1980s, when the demonstrations of Armenians for independence reached their climax." - IFFR
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Stone Time Touch
🇦🇲 ArmeniaStone, Time, Touch is a documentary made by Gariné Torossian about the relationship of three Armenian women from the diaspora with the land of Armenia. The young woman (played by Kamee Abrahamian) is visiting Armenia for the first time. The older woman, Arsinée Khanjian has a more conflicted and analytical perspective of her identity and her relationship with the fledgling democracy, one of the former Soviet Union republics. She has been to landlocked Armenia many times and comments on photos taken by French photographer Marc Baguelin. The third trajectory is more subtle and is represented by Gariné Torossian herself whose face is super imposed from time to time in this stylistically-layered documentary.
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The Priestess
🇦🇲 Armenia The 4th CenturyIn 301 A.D. Gregory the Illuminator healed the one-time Pagan King Tiridates the Great and christened the Armenian people, thus making Armenia the first Christian nation in the world. This is the story about a woman who changed the faith of her nation forever.
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Pterodactyl
🇦🇲 Armenia 🇹🇷 Turkey The 2000sEvil is in the air — A dormant volcano deep with the Turkish forest holds within it a deadly secret. Perfectly preserved, a nest of pterodactyl eggs are ready to hatch...
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Vodka Lemon
🇦🇲 Armenia The 2000sHamo, a handsome 60-year old man, lives alone in a Romenian village with one of his daughters and his granddaughter. He also owns a retirement of seven dollars per month, a closet, an old russian television set and a military costume.A letter from his second daughter arrives from France.A rumor runs through the village: the envelope would be full of money...But Hamo doesn't think but of the beautiful unknown girl from the cemetery.
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Calendar
Ontario 🇦🇲 Armenia The 1990sA photographer and his wife travel across Armenia photographing churches for a calendar project. Travelling with them is a local man acting as their driver and guide. As the project nears completion, the distance between husband and wife grows.
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Yearning
🇦🇲 Armenia 🇹🇷 Turkey 🇷🇺 Russia The 1930sThe story took place in 1930s in Soviet Armenia. Arakel Aloyan is a naive peasant who left his homeland in Western Armenia after Armenian genocide of 1915, witnessed his village burnt and women raped. All the efforts of family members to pursue Arakel to accustom himself to a new life in Soviet Armenia are in vain whilst he suffers from nostalgia. After having a vision one sleepless night, Arakel crosses the Soviet-Turkish border, visits his village ("to visit the tombs of my parents, to kiss the remaining walls of our village church"), meets his old Kurdish friends. After returning back, he's captured by NKVD (Soviet state security) being accused of "spying against the nation" and tragically ends his life in the exile train to Siberia.
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Life Triumphs
🇦🇲 Armenia The 1910sStory of a strong-willed man, Nahapet, who lost his family during the 1915 Genocide is an eternal story of resurrection.
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My Heart Is in the Highlands
🇦🇲 Armenia The 1930sScreen version of William Saroyan's play about a family of Armenian immigrants during the Great Depression.
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Hello, It's Me!
🇦🇲 ArmeniaArtyom (Armen Dzhigarkhanyan) is a scientist who buries himself in his work after the woman he loves dies during the war. He is informed of his sweetheart's death by a young woman, and soon love blossoms between the lonely doctor and the emerging beauty. This is the big-screen debut of Margarita Terekhova in the popular film that was seen by over 20 million in the USSR.
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Guys from the Army Band
🇦🇲 ArmeniaNvagakhmbi Tghanere — Bolshevik Tsolak Darbinyan is infiltrated into Dashnak Army as a musician of Army music band. Despite the initial personal conflict with band leader Arsen, he is able to win the friendship of young band musicians including Arsen and to persuade them to back him on the eve of the Bolshevik invasion to Armenia.
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David Bek
🇦🇲 Armenia The 18th CenturyThe Armenian national hero, David Bek, leads a major Armenian uprising against Safavid Persia in the Syunik region in the 18th century.
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Nazar the Brave
🇦🇲 ArmeniaComical tale about how the coward Nazar who, as a joke of fate, appears to preside over the throne.
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Zangezur
🇦🇲 Armenia The 1920sThe 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.
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Karo
🇦🇲 ArmeniaKaro — A schoolboy, Karo, gets involved into the struggle between Communists and Dashnaks during the establishment of a Soviet regime in Armenia.
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Gikor
🇦🇲 ArmeniaVillage 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, nor kindness in merchant's house and misses his home. Some envy small bailiff but nobody see his sufferings.
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Char vogi
🇦🇲 ArmeniaIt's a tragic story of an epileptic girl, who is the victim of the prejudices of her husband's family.
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Khaspush
🇦🇲 Armenia The 1890sThe movie is about the suppressed revolt of "khaspushes", Persian peasants and craftsmen in 1891.
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Zare
🇦🇲 ArmeniaA Kurdish chieftain covets a local beauty whom he'd like to make his second wife, but the girl resists him.
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Shor and Shorshor
🇦🇲 ArmeniaTwo friends, Shor and Shorshor, both idlers and drunkards, have many comical adventures and get into lot of trouble.
