Zhora Arutyunyan

Artak has served his military service in the Russian countryside where he meets Valya. But Valya's mother refuses to send her only daughter to “these far highlands, where earthquakes happen all the time”. Artak is forced to ask his contrasting and numerous relatives –Armenian villagers– to visit a remote Russian village to bring a bride to Armenia.

The house of a village teacher burns down. Out of sympathy the villagers come to rebuild the house. And here come the real troubles...

A pedigree bull-calf becomes boe of contention between the heads of two competitive collective farms, two brothers-in-law.

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

When the wife of a ballet director gets a visit from a drunk man, all goes wrong in a mess of misunderstandings

Artak has served his military service in the Russian countryside where he meets Valya. But Valya's mother refuses to send her only daughter to “these far highlands, where earthquakes happen all the time”. Artak is forced to ask his contrasting and numerous relatives –Armenian villagers– to visit a remote Russian village to bring a bride to Armenia.

The house of a village teacher burns down. Out of sympathy the villagers come to rebuild the house. And here come the real troubles...

A pedigree bull-calf becomes boe of contention between the heads of two competitive collective farms, two brothers-in-law.

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

When the wife of a ballet director gets a visit from a drunk man, all goes wrong in a mess of misunderstandings