
Directing
Hamo Bek-Nazaryan
Born 1892-05-31 · Erivan, Russian Empire
Hamo Beknazarian (Armenian: Համո Բեկնազարյան; Russian: Амбарцум Бек-Назаров; 19 May 1891 – 27 April 1965), also known as Hamo Bek-Nazarov or Amo Bek-Nazarian, was an Armenian film director, actor and screenwriter.
Acting credits
Based on the novel and play by W. Notari. The movie is not fully preserved, without inscriptions.
Three Thieves
1918
NRThe movie didn't survive.
Courtesan and Fisherman
1917
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The Sons of Pyotr Smirnov
1915
Screen adaptation of the play by V.K.Vinnichenko. The picture was probably not released due to the fire of the studio. The movie is not fully preserved, without inscriptions.
Lies
1918
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Girls Who Don't Get Married
1916
5.0The legend of the Suram Fortress.
The Surami Fortress
1922
10.0No synopsis available yet.
It Was Like That, But It Won't Be
1917
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Tsar's Oprichniki
1917
6.7Pastor Talnoх furiously urges the flock to fight temptations, but he himself becomes a victim of temptation. In his house appears Satan, pushing the hero to theft and spiritual fall.
Satan Triumphant
1917
10.0No synopsis available yet.
The Devil's Scherzo
1918
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The Shame of the Orlov's House
1918
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Mysterious World
1916
Opera singer Yuri Nagorny is a famous celadon and a ladies' man. Easily and with impunity he breaks women's hearts. But retribution catches up with him. Sister once seduced and ruined Nagorny dancer arranges arson in his apartment. The seducer's face is disfigured by burns - now he is safe for women.
Yuriy Nagorniy
1916
Behind the camera
5.8After the play of same name of Jafar Jabbarli. This melodrama is about the woman who had unhappy homelife and tried to free herself from shariat rules.
Sevil
1929
Two friends, Shor and Shorshor, both idlers and drunkards, have many comical adventures and get into lot of trouble.
Shor and Shorshor
1926
7.0The film is about the civil war in the Zangezur (Syunik) province of Armenia in the early 1920s. The last Dashnak battalions headed by Sparapet Nzhdeh still opposed both the incursion of Red Army and the local Bolshevik partisans.
Zangezur
1938
7.0The film is about the civil war in the Zangezur (Syunik) province of Armenia in the early 1920s. The last Dashnak battalions headed by Sparapet Nzhdeh still opposed both the incursion of Red Army and the local Bolshevik partisans.
Zangezur
1938
4.9A poor but honest fisherman Pepo opposes a cunning trader Zimzimov, who tries to rob him by trickery refusing to pay a lost bill. Pepo choses prison to paying-off his honour.
Pepo
1935
4.9A poor but honest fisherman Pepo opposes a cunning trader Zimzimov, who tries to rob him by trickery refusing to pay a lost bill. Pepo choses prison to paying-off his honour.
Pepo
1935
6.3During the Civil War, a long time friends Ilya, Tanya and Tevdore decide to find the treasure, which is hidden by the counter revolutionists. After many precarious efforts the disguised friends manage somehow to penetrate the enemy’s camp and attend their leadership’s party. Tanya enchants the enemy Commander Kleshchuk and gets hold of the key of his apartment. The friends steal the treasure, baffle Kleshchuk’s pursuit and return the treasure to the government.
The Lost Treasure
1924
6.3During the Civil War, a long time friends Ilya, Tanya and Tevdore decide to find the treasure, which is hidden by the counter revolutionists. After many precarious efforts the disguised friends manage somehow to penetrate the enemy’s camp and attend their leadership’s party. Tanya enchants the enemy Commander Kleshchuk and gets hold of the key of his apartment. The friends steal the treasure, baffle Kleshchuk’s pursuit and return the treasure to the government.
The Lost Treasure
1924
8.4Nunu and Iago are in love with each other. The married guard Girgola wants to get hold of the woman. Girgola gets Iago arrested and makes Nunu marry his retarded brother. On one occasion he finds the woman alone and rapes her. Nunu jumps in the river to commit suicide but gets saved by Iago’s friends. Iago escapes from jail, but Girgola attacks his hideout and haves him killed together with his friends. Girgola also kills Nunu’s old father and accuses Nunu of the murder. Nunu is tied to a pole and dies in the exile.
In the Pillory
1923
8.4Nunu and Iago are in love with each other. The married guard Girgola wants to get hold of the woman. Girgola gets Iago arrested and makes Nunu marry his retarded brother. On one occasion he finds the woman alone and rapes her. Nunu jumps in the river to commit suicide but gets saved by Iago’s friends. Iago escapes from jail, but Girgola attacks his hideout and haves him killed together with his friends. Girgola also kills Nunu’s old father and accuses Nunu of the murder. Nunu is tied to a pole and dies in the exile.
In the Pillory
1923
6.5The prince falls in love with an ordinary girl and marries her. Later, when enemies capture the prince, it's his young wife who gets him out of trouble.
Anahit
1947
One of the few Armenian fictions of the 1940s, this parable about the aftermath of World War II reveals the director's deeply humanistic vision, who finds the epic and the universal in minor and private subjects.
The Daughter
1942
6.0An aging drilling foreman recounts the brutal suppression of an oil workers’ strike in pre-revolutionary Baku.
The House on the Volcano
1929
6.0An aging drilling foreman recounts the brutal suppression of an oil workers’ strike in pre-revolutionary Baku.
The House on the Volcano
1929
4.5Based on Alexander Shirvanzade's 1885 novel of the same name, the film denounces the despotic rites and customs of Caucasian families. It is widely recognized as the first Armenian feature film.
Honor
1926
4.5Based on Alexander Shirvanzade's 1885 novel of the same name, the film denounces the despotic rites and customs of Caucasian families. It is widely recognized as the first Armenian feature film.
Honor
1926
7.0For his first feature-length documentary, Bek-Nazarian uses both archival footage and re-enacted scenes to create a historical and poetic fresco about the transformation of the Nairi province into a flourishing Soviet republic.
Land of Nairi
1930
5.4Immediately prior to the Russian Revolution, a young shepherd Seydo and his girlfriend Zare struggle for their right to a happy love in a Yazidi Kurdish village in Russian Armenia.
Zare
1926
5.4Immediately prior to the Russian Revolution, a young shepherd Seydo and his girlfriend Zare struggle for their right to a happy love in a Yazidi Kurdish village in Russian Armenia.
Zare
1926
3.3The movie is about the suppressed revolt of "khaspushes", Persian peasants and craftsmen in 1891.
Khaspush
1928
3.3The movie is about the suppressed revolt of "khaspushes", Persian peasants and craftsmen in 1891.
Khaspush
1928
4.8Love, adventure, and revolutionary uprising in 19th century Georgia.
Natela
1926
4.8Love, adventure, and revolutionary uprising in 19th century Georgia.
Natela
1926
8.0A musical comedy about the adventures of a few students in Soviet Uzbekistan
Housewarming
1955