Vigen Chaldranyan

Directing

Vigen Chaldranyan

Vigen (Vagharshak) Chaldranyan (Armenian: Վիգեն (Վաղարշակ) Հակոբի Չալդրանյան, born 26 December 1955 in Yerevan) is an Armenian Film Director, Screenwriter, Editor, Actor, Art Director, and Producer.

Acting credits

A Place Under the Sun poster
NR

Teacher Anush Stepanovna, her son Artashes, and four puppies they have taken in: Neposedu, Chernushka, Kubik, and Razdan, each have their own personality and unique, amazing story.

A Place Under the Sun

1975

Anush poster
NR

In the Armenian highlands, Anush and the shepherd Saro dream of a life together. But when a festive wrestling match leaves her brother publicly humiliated, wounded pride turns to vengeance, and an ominous prophecy begins to close around the lovers.

Anush

1983

Alter Ego poster
5.0

A film about the great Komitas, one of the victims of the Armenian Genocide, who wasn't killed, but went crazy and kept silence for 20 years

Alter Ego

2016

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

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

Chairman of the Revolutionary Committee poster
NR

About the early years of Soviet power in Armenia. The protagonist of the film is the chairman of the revolutionary committee in a provincial town, where not everyone has yet come to terms with the new regime.

Chairman of the Revolutionary Committee

1978

The Voice of Silence poster
NR

Based on a true story, this is a subtle tale of re-affirmation of the identity of the artist following the Armenian Diaspora. It is an encounter with his alter-ego, a dialogue with his own conscience, a gradual dawning of the truth and an authentic glance at life... themes understandable by all. The film is an episode in the life of the director, a life full of surprises, and all the more so for being a cosmopolitan Armenian-American now standing on his native soil, his ultimate source of creative energy and ideas.

The Voice of Silence

2013

Kyrie Eleison poster
7.7

The main character - an actor and film-director - tries to live, ignoring the everyday petty struggles for survival.

Kyrie Eleison

1997

Breath poster
10.0

An industrial plant pollutes Lake Sevan with discharges. The public demands to close harmful production. The responsible worker, who is in charge of the plant, understands the requirements of environmentalists, but does not dare to conflict with the management.

Breath

1989

Behind the camera

Alter Ego poster
5.0

A film about the great Komitas, one of the victims of the Armenian Genocide, who wasn't killed, but went crazy and kept silence for 20 years

Alter Ego

2016

Alter Ego poster
5.0

A film about the great Komitas, one of the victims of the Armenian Genocide, who wasn't killed, but went crazy and kept silence for 20 years

Alter Ego

2016

Alter Ego poster
5.0

A film about the great Komitas, one of the victims of the Armenian Genocide, who wasn't killed, but went crazy and kept silence for 20 years

Alter Ego

2016

The Priestess poster
6.0

In 301 A.D. Gregory the Illuminator healed the one-time Pagan King Tiridates the Great and christened the Armenian people, thus making Armenia the first Christian nation in the world. This is the story about a woman who changed the faith of her nation forever.

The Priestess

2007

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

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

Symphony of Silence poster
4.7

A successful businessman with a terminal illness returns to Armenia and buys a mental institution.

Symphony of Silence

2001

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

The Voice of Silence poster
NR

Based on a true story, this is a subtle tale of re-affirmation of the identity of the artist following the Armenian Diaspora. It is an encounter with his alter-ego, a dialogue with his own conscience, a gradual dawning of the truth and an authentic glance at life... themes understandable by all. The film is an episode in the life of the director, a life full of surprises, and all the more so for being a cosmopolitan Armenian-American now standing on his native soil, his ultimate source of creative energy and ideas.

The Voice of Silence

2013

The Voice of Silence poster
NR

Based on a true story, this is a subtle tale of re-affirmation of the identity of the artist following the Armenian Diaspora. It is an encounter with his alter-ego, a dialogue with his own conscience, a gradual dawning of the truth and an authentic glance at life... themes understandable by all. The film is an episode in the life of the director, a life full of surprises, and all the more so for being a cosmopolitan Armenian-American now standing on his native soil, his ultimate source of creative energy and ideas.

The Voice of Silence

2013

The Voice of Silence poster
NR

Based on a true story, this is a subtle tale of re-affirmation of the identity of the artist following the Armenian Diaspora. It is an encounter with his alter-ego, a dialogue with his own conscience, a gradual dawning of the truth and an authentic glance at life... themes understandable by all. The film is an episode in the life of the director, a life full of surprises, and all the more so for being a cosmopolitan Armenian-American now standing on his native soil, his ultimate source of creative energy and ideas.

The Voice of Silence

2013

Kyrie Eleison poster
7.7

The main character - an actor and film-director - tries to live, ignoring the everyday petty struggles for survival.

Kyrie Eleison

1997

Kyrie Eleison poster
7.7

The main character - an actor and film-director - tries to live, ignoring the everyday petty struggles for survival.

Kyrie Eleison

1997

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

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