Videoteca

location_onYerevan, Armenian SSR, USSRpublicSU

The Little One 2000
Animation from Robert Sahakyants 2000

Victoria 1997
Wordless animated fim from Robert Sahakyants

Kyrie Eleison 1997 star_border 8
The main character - an actor and film-director - tries to live, ignoring the everyday petty struggles for survival.

Elections 1994 star_border 7
Animated short about presidential elections of 1991 and its consequences in the Armenian people’s life under the rule of Pan-Armenian National Movement. Based on a song by Armenian poet and songwriter Ruben Hakhverdyan.

Bust 1993
A funny and sad story about how two friends accidentally smashed a bust of Stalin and what happened next.

Everything is Fine 1991
Animated film from Robert Sahakyants. Political satire on the last years of Soviet Russian rule over Armenia. It makes fun of several well known Soviet leaders. Based on a popular Russian song from the 1930's

Hostages 1991
Gevorg Adamyan is a man of power who enjoys many privileges and is guided throughout his life by the slogan "the purpose justifies the means". This enables him always to stay at the top of the pyramid but, at the same time, gradually ruins him as a person and brings unhappiness to his own family, destroying the lives of his close friends and relatives.

The Voice in the Wilderness 1991
Armenia in the Middle Ages ... the desert ... the bell-tower of a half-destroyed church ... Martiros languishes in the desert. His heart strikes out beyond the narrow monastic circle.

Yearning 1990 star_border 3.7
Real life tragic story of Arakel whose anguish towards lost homeland made him cross Soviet-Turkish border during Stalin era.

Match 1990
An allegorical film about the historical rise and decline of the USSR as reflected through a chess game.

Litsom k Stene 1990 star_border 5.2
Молодому юристу, в первый день службы, поручают закончить дело, которое вел умерший накануне сотрудник. Однако, блестяще распутав дело и засвидетельствовав связи преступников с прокуратурой, герой принимает неожиданное для профессионала решение - покончить с мирской жизнью и постричься в монахи...

Koridor 1990
This animation shows advantages and disadvantages of communal life through the metaphor of a communal apartment, the walls of which depict the history of a huge multi-national country

Breath 1989
An industrial plant pollutes Lake Sevan with discharges. The public demands to close harmful production. The responsible worker, who is in charge of the plant, understands the requirements of environmentalists, but does not dare to conflict with the management.

And Everything Will Be Repeated… 1989
A 1989 Russian-Armenian language drama film written and directed by Bagrat Oganesyan, starring Gennadiy Garbuk, Nina Bokhyan and Irina Alfyorova.

The Button 1989 star_border 4.5
Every time a Soviet apparatchik presses a button, something explodes.

Белая кость 1989

Requiem 1989
A documentary film dedicated to the tragedy of the Armenian people as a result of the earthquake of 1989.

Magician 1989
A visiting magician arranges a session of collective hypnosis, which reveals the true essence of the town's inhabitants.

The Rat 1988
A tenant of a huge apartment building has a rat problem. While the news on television speaks of nothing but weapons and disarmament agreements, the rats steadily destroy his home.

The Thirteenth Apostle 1988 star_border 5.8
Russian adaptation of Ray Bradbury's "The Martian Chronicles"

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