List of Armenian films of the 1920s

This is a list of films released in the 1920s produced in Armenia SSR or directed by Armenians or about Armenia or Armenians, ordered by year of release.

Title	Director	Cast	Genre	Notes
1920
1921
1922
1923
1924
1925
Նամուս Namus[1]	Hamo Beknazarian	Hovhannes Abelian Hasmik	Silent film	Based on Alexander Shirvanzade's 1885 novel of the same name.[2] It is widely recognized as the first Armenian feature film.[3][4]
1926
Shor and Shorshor	Hamo Beknazarian	Hambartsum Khachanyan Aram Amirbekyan Nina Manucharyan	Comedy
Զարե Zare[5]	Hamo Beknazarian	Maria Tenazi Hrachia Nersisyan Avet Avetisyan	Drama
1927
1928
Խասփուշ Khaspush[6]	Hamo Beknazarian	Hrachia Nersisyan M. Dulgaryan Avet Avetisyan	War drama
The Slave	A. Yalovoy	Hasmik B. Madatova N. Manucharyan
Evil Spirit[7]	Patvakan Barkhudaryan Mikheil Gelovani	Hasmik Nina Manucharyan Mikheil Gelovani
Five Hitting the Mark (Step by Step)	Patvakan Barkhudaryan	L. Sahakyan H. Mravyan S. Kocharyan
1929
House on the Volcano	Hamo Beknazarian	Hrachia Nersisyan T. Ayvazyan T. Makhmuryan
The Sixtheenth (The Sixteenth?)	Patvakan Barkhudaryan	A. Gorelov T. Vishnevskaya N. Volkhovskoy
Spring in Collective Farm	Amasi Martirosyan	Avet Avetisyan M. Garagash Aram Amirbekyan		A short.
Who Is to Blame?	K. Arzumanyan	S. Mkrtchyan Amasi Martirosyan K. Arzumanyan		A short.

Namus, 1926

References

1. S. Peter Cowe, edited by Nishan Parlakian (2000). Modern Armenian drama : an anthology. New York: Columbia University Press. p. 131. ISBN 9780231116305. {{cite book}}: |first= has generic name (help)
2. Cowe, 2000; Introduction
3. Rosenfeld, Alla, ed. (1999). Defining Russian graphic arts: from Diaghilev to Stalin, 1898-1934. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press. p. 154. ISBN 9780813526041.
4. Karoghlanian, Armen. "From the Vault: The Birth of Culture in Namus". Yerevan Magazine. Archived from the original on 10 February 2013. Retrieved 19 October 2012.
5. "Zare". arm-cinema.am. Armenian Association of Film Critics and Cinema Journalists. Archived from the original on 2 November 2019. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
6. "Khaspush". arm-cinema.am. Armenian Association of Film Critics and Cinema Journalists. Archived from the original on 28 June 2014. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
7. "Evil Spirit". arm-cinema.am. Armenian Association of Film Critics and Cinema Journalists.

External links

• Armenian film at the Internet Movie Database

See also

• List of Soviet films