Zangezur (film)

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Zangezur
Directed by
Written by
Starring
Cinematography
  • Garosh Beknazarian
  • Ivan Dildaryan
Music by Aram Khachaturian [2]
Production
company
Distributed byArmenkino
Release date
  • May 23, 1938 (1938-05-23)
Running time
89 minutes
Country Soviet Union
Languages

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.

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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

References

  1. 1 2 3 Shakarian, Pietro A. (2025). Anastas Mikoyan: An Armenian Reformer in Khrushchev's Kremlin. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. p. 267n225. ISBN   978-0253073556.
  2. 1 2 Yuzefovich, Victor A. (1985). Aram Khachaturyan. Translated by Nicholas Kournokoff; Vladimir Bobrov. New York: Sphinx Press. p. 86. ISBN   0-8236-8658-2.
  3. ↑ Rollberg, Peter (2009). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. p. 96. ISBN   978-0810860728.
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