Amo Bek-Nazaryan

Amo Bek-Nazaryan was born in Yerevan on 19 May 1891 and came to cinema in 1914, when an acquaintance offered him a small part; he played about seventy until 1918 and became a popular figure of pre-revolutionary Russian cinema. Settled in Tiflis in 1920, he set up a cinema department at the Georgian commissariat for public education and shot his first films there. Settled in Armenia in 1925, he directed Pepo there in 1933, the first Armenian sound film, and is regarded as the founding father of that cinema. Awarded the Stalin Prize in 1941, he died in Moscow on 27 April 1965.

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• CinemaThe House on the VolcanoDom na vulkaneAmo Bek-Nazaryan · 1929Cinema