Karen Dzhanibekyan

Acting

Karen Dzhanibekyan

Born — Died

1937-07-01 — 2015-03-22

Known for

Acting

Credits

33 titles

Karen Dzhanibekyan was born on July 1, 1937 in Yerevan, Armenian SSR, USSR. He was an actor, known for Gaghtni khorhrdakane (1989), Trinadtsatyy apostol (1988) and Baghdasare bazhanvum e knojits (1977). He died on March 22, 2015 in Yerevan, Armenia.

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 6 titles

No Borders poster
5.5

Few not connected novels about the love. Few couples falling in love in different places of post USSR: Moscow, Georgia, Armenia.

No Borders

2015

If Only Everyone poster
7.1

A beautiful girl named Sasha from Russia comes to Armenia. Born between Russian father and Armenian mother, Sasha is searching for the grave of her father who died in the Karabakh War. Karabakh, which was the territory of the Azerbaijani Republic during the Soviet Union’s collapse, has many Armenian residents. At the time, Armenians demanded their independence from Azerbaijani Republic and the subsequent conflict caused heavy casualties. Many Russian soldiers also lost their lives in the war. The conflict is still going on. This film is a postscript to a historical event occurred in the early 1990s and about a still ongoing conflict. In the scene that camera quietly crosses the border from Armenia, the director presents an image of each side of the people communicating with one another despite their own wounds instead of one pointing a gun at the other side.

If Only Everyone

2012

Daredevils of Sassoun poster
8.0

An animated film based on the Armenian heroic epic poem Daredevils of Sassoun. The animation centers around the main protagonist of the third branch of the Sassoun family, named David.

Daredevils of Sassoun

2010

No artwork available
NR

The fourteen-year-old stubborn and arrogant Haik has a dream: to hunt a pheasant. For a long time he tried to a frazzle out his father's hunting gun for that purpose. Eventually he gets the gun. Already in the forest Haik understands it's not a pheasant hunt season; besides he doesn't know how to use the gun. As it gets darker, the colorful autumn wood turns into a cold and a frightening place, that the desperate boy strives to escape... Finally he manages to get a pair of superb pheasants. And perhaps something else, that is much more important.

The Pheasant Hunter

2017

Hot Country, Cold Winter poster
NR

A STORY OF A FAMILY, THE HISTORY OF A NATION ”A little piece of land? A whole country? A little group of people or a whole nation? What are they waiting for? Is their queue endless?” Do not expect to get all the answers. A tale of a man and a woman suffering the circumstances of a total energy crisis. Their recollections, short narratives, imagination act as aids in understanding of the story, and in understanding that core human values are shared throughout the world.

Hot Country, Cold Winter

2015

Maestro poster
NR

Relegated to the background in the brutal times of a transitional period, the Maestro, who is a devotee of art, an advocate of moral standards, a cellist of a symphonic orchestra, a professor of a conservatory, unable to withstand the prevailing wildness, has inevitable clashes with the environment and experiences a heavy personal drama. Archival footage of protests preceding and following the 2008 Armenian presidential elections are used in the film.

Maestro

2010

2000s · 3 titles

1990s · 6 titles

Blood poster
7.0

Young man is given an opportunity to live his life over again.

Blood

1990

Comrade Panjuni poster
8.0

Screen version of Yervand Otyan's "Comrade Panjuni" is powerful satire on demagoguery and hypocrisy of the Armenian politicos and political party activists.

Comrade Panjuni

1992

Facing the Wall poster
6.2

Молодому юристу, в первый день службы, поручают закончить дело, которое вел умерший накануне сотрудник. Однако, блестяще распутав дело и засвидетельствовав связи преступников с прокуратурой, герой принимает неожиданное для профессионала решение - покончить с мирской жизнью и постричься в монахи...

Facing the Wall

1990

Avetik poster
7.1

A tableaux of poetry and images exploring the historical trauma, identity, and collective memory of the Armenian people centered on an Armenian filmmaker exiled in Berlin.

Avetik

1992

The Voice in the Wilderness poster
9.0

Armenia in the Middle Ages ... the desert ... the bell-tower of a half-destroyed church ... Martiros languishes in the desert. His heart strikes out beyond the narrow monastic circle.

The Voice in the Wilderness

1992

Lost Paradise poster
8.0

Set in the mountainous Eastern Armenian village of Partizak, the film follows residents who are descendants of refugees from a identically named village on the other side of Mount Ararat in Western Armenia, centering on an elderly man named Mkhitar as he and his community navigate daily life while holding onto fading memories of a lost homeland.

Lost Paradise

1991

1980s · 13 titles

King John poster
NR

A historical chronicle about the history of England during the reign of John Lackland.

King John

1984

Five Letters of Farewell poster
9.0

The film is about the last months in the life of a professional revolutionary, the poet Alexander Vermishev.

Five Letters of Farewell

1988

Constellation Goattour poster
5.0

The action takes place in one of the Transcaucasian republics in the sixties, where a campaign was launched to breed a new animal, the goat, descended from the mountain tour and the domestic goat.

Constellation Goattour

1989

No artwork available
5.7

Soviet Armenian adaptation of Ray Bradbury's "The Martian Chronicles".

The Thirteenth Apostle

1988

While We Live poster
8.0

The action of the film takes place in a children's colony, where a film is being shot. In the colony, director Manvel Simonyan gets to know the minor prisoner Hovhannes Darbinyan, who was sentenced to prison for stabbing her lover while trying to protect his mother. The director takes upon himself the burden of releasing a juvenile prisoner before the deadline.

While We Live

1986

The Big Win poster
6.4

A crane operator wins a car in a lottery and his life immediately encounters various trials and tribulations.

The Big Win

1980

Master poster
NR

The forester, at the cost of becoming a thorn in the eyes of everyone, protects his native nature and the cradle:

Master

1983

Where Are You Going, Soldier? poster
NR

The main events take place on the road while the hero is returning home from the war. Memories of war accompany him all the way.

Where Are You Going, Soldier?

1985

Secret Advisor poster
9.0

Ivan and Milton, excavator drivers, accidentally dig up a coffin with the remnants of a secret advisor. Wishing to bury him with honour, two friends go through different authorities but are met with refusal. They take the coffin to Milton's home where resurrected advisor easily integrates himself into their lives, taking away Milton's wife and making career at their company. Ivan and Milton decide to get rid of their new friend.

Secret Advisor

1989

April poster
NR

In April (Armenia 1985), on the 70th anniversary of the genocide, on April 24, 1985, Vigen Chaldranyan stages a conversation between the generations in a mixture of comedy and bitter seriousness. As every year, the veterans talk about the days of the war. But while their sons can no longer hear all this, the grandchildren feel called upon to "solve the Armenian question".

April

1985

Magician poster
NR

A visiting magician arranges a session of collective hypnosis, which reveals the true essence of the town's inhabitants.

Magician

1989

Hairdresser poster
NR

Two Armenian emigrants met in distant America. A boy with long, beautiful hair and a hairdresser who has a lot of fascinating stories in stock. The further friendship of the two dreamers is unlikely to be prevented by funny tufts of hair sticking out after an inept haircut...

Hairdresser

1986

Pharmacy at the Crossroads poster
10.0

Every day, at the intersection of streets near a small old pharmacy, janitor Musheg, pharmacist Adamyan, and security guard Gaspard meet. They are all elderly people who lived through the war, during which they lost their loved ones. But the main thing that unites them is their faith in people, in justice, and their ability to come to the rescue when needed.

Pharmacy at the Crossroads

1988

1970s · 3 titles

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