Zangezur, a 1938 Armenian feature film, tells the story of the civil war in Armenia and the establishment of Soviet rule in the early 1920s.
Cast
- Hrachia Nersisyan – Akopyan
- Avet Avetisyan – Sparapet (based on Garegin Nzhdeh)
- Hasmik – Agyul
- David Malyan – Makich
- Gurgen Dzhanibekyan – Saco
- Gurgen Gabrielyan – Armen
- Grigoriy Avetyan – deaf old man
- Gegham Harutyunyan – Samvel
- Andrei Kostrichkin – Denikin Colonel Markov
- Ivan Chuvelev – Nikita
- Galust Sululikyan – Atyun Aper
- Amasi Martirosyan – Dashnak officer
- Murad Kostanyan – Dashnak officer
- Haykasar Minasaryan – Gusan
- Arakelyan – Aznar
- Bela Isaakyan – Anush
- Grigory Margaryan – soldier
- Michael Garagash – Samson
- Eunice Nuri – guerrilla
- Vladimir Tsoppi – English major
Awards
In 1941, Hamo Beknazaryan, Hrachya Nersisyan, and Avet Avetisyan were awarded the Stalin Prize II degree for the film “Zangezur”.
