ZANGEZUR

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”.