Month: June 2019
ABOUT HIM OR HOW HE DID NOT FEAR THE BEAR
A FILM BY NARINE MKRTCHYAN and ARSEN AZATYAN ABOUT HIM OR HOE HE DID NOT FEAR THE BEAR Short Synopsis Ivan Povarenko deserts his position one night at a Russian army base in Gyumri, Armenia, enters a house and uses his automatic to kill all the members of the family living there, not even sparing [...]
THE VALLEY
A film Project by NARINE MKRTCHYAN and ARSEN AZATYAN THE VALLEY Synopsis During World War I, Heinrich Schulze, the military medic of the German Army, at the same time with his work also takes photos of the construction process of Berlin-Baghdad railway in the eastern part of the Ottoman Turkey, but witnesses a totally different [...]
HAMLET
A film Project by AREG AZATYAN and SHOGHIK TADEVOSYAN HAMLET Synopsis After being fired from his job as an art teacher at school, HAMLET ends up facing serious financial issues. He has to bear the “burden” of caring for his mother after his father had emigrated to find work in the chaotic period of the [...]
THE GLASS TRINKET
A film by NARINE MKRTCHYAN and ARSEN AZATYAN THE GLASS TRINKET Synopsis It is a dramatic love story of two young people. During his military service In the army, and having learned by phone that his girlfriend was pregnant, the boy leaves his unit without permission and takes a train to meet his girlfriend and [...]
THE RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL SON
A film by NARINE MKRTCHYAN and ARSEN AZATYAN THE RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL SON Synopsis This is the story of a family in which the father is a wise, rich man, the eldest son is a well-off businessman, the youngest is still searching for himself, and the middle son is the prodigal. That is, prodigal [...]
THE ROMANTICISTS
A film by AREG AZATYAN and SHOGHIK TADEVOSYAN THE ROMANTICISTS Synopsis The story is about Oscar, an Armenian actor who dreamed of going to Hollywood and becoming a celebrity for many years. Now he won a Green Card Lottery, and it seems his long-standing dream came true! But the good-bye party given for him by [...]
RADIO YEREVAN
A film by NARINE MKRTCHYAN and ARSEN AZATYAN RADIO YEREVAN Synopsis A refrigerator truck loaded with humanitarian aid arrives in Armenia. The drivers are unable to locate the road to Yerevan and keep looking for it. Parallel to this a string of ludicrous stories unfolds, and, if you ask us, this is Radio Yerevan per [...]
BOBO (The Bogeyman)
A film by NARINE MKRTCHYAN and ARSEN AZATYAN BOBO (The Bogeyman) Synopsis The film is dedicated to the renowned film director Sergey Paradjanov; to the unfolding memory of a man who was refereed to as a genius, a gay, a mime, a tradesman, a saint. The film possesses no plain and logical plot line and [...]
ANDREY
A film by NARINE MKRTCHYAN and ARSEN AZATYAN ANDREY Synopsis In 1965 A. Tarkovsky visited Armenia, Geghardavank. It is hard to say what he has been looking for and what he has seen there. Fortunately has fixed (on occasion) several frames (6min., 35mm, b/w) from the visit of greatest master in Geghardavank. Anyway, such frames [...]
THE DONKEY
A film by AREG AZATYAN THE DONKEY It all began when the donkey said: "Just once, at least for a minute, I would have liked to enjoy all this, the beauty and all... I would feel myself a real ass, I would be happy..." The film is about the relationship of the donkey with the [...]
