Guzh Manukyan

Acting

Guzh Manukyan

Born — Died

1937-05-06 — 2025-06-24

Known for

Acting

Credits

16 titles

Known for

Life Triumphs poster
4.8

Set in the aftermath of the 1915 Armenian Genocide, a grief-stricken survivor arrives in a desolate Soviet Armenian village after losing his entire family. Burdened by trauma, he must navigate a bleak existence and find the will to heal, plant roots, and rebuild his life.

Life Triumphs

1977

No artwork available
NR

The archimandrite appoints the hunter Akop as a priest and forces him to vow never to hunt again for the rest of his life. However, the hunter will be forced to break his oath — and by the time the bishop's guests arrive, he will have shot partridges for the barbecue.

The Priest's Promise

1964

This Green, Red World poster
NR

It is the tragic love story of rustic lovers Dylan and Sona. Sona is married off to a rich fellow villager whom she does not like.

This Green, Red World

1977

Bridges Over Oblivion poster
7.0

Kirovakan, Armenia, 1968. A street in the town is being renamed, but nobody seems to know whom after. A chance encounter between a student running late to his thesis defense, and a young woman determined to leave the town forever. 25 years earlier, Genrikh Zakaryan, a young resistance fighter, smuggles a secret Nazi operations map through occupied territory. Imaginings and history meld into one, echoes of past and future coalesce: “the fate of Genrikh Zakaryan is intangibly intertwined with the fate of today’s youth.”

Bridges Over Oblivion

1970

The Mountain poster
7.0

The plane crashes in the mountains. Marselin, who has a penchant for adventure, convinces his brother Isay to climb the mountains and "clean out" the pockets of the dead passengers. Heroes with different human characteristics appear before a moral choice. The film is based on the novel by Henri Troyat.

The Mountain

1978

Վերջին Ուսուցիչը poster
NR

The TV series is based on the novella of the same name by Vardges Petrosyan. The events of the novella, taking place in the Soviet Armenia, have been translated into the modern life.

Վերջին Ուսուցիչը

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Film credits

1970s · 9 titles

Life Triumphs poster
4.8

Set in the aftermath of the 1915 Armenian Genocide, a grief-stricken survivor arrives in a desolate Soviet Armenian village after losing his entire family. Burdened by trauma, he must navigate a bleak existence and find the will to heal, plant roots, and rebuild his life.

Life Triumphs

1977

This Green, Red World poster
NR

It is the tragic love story of rustic lovers Dylan and Sona. Sona is married off to a rich fellow villager whom she does not like.

This Green, Red World

1977

Bridges Over Oblivion poster
7.0

Kirovakan, Armenia, 1968. A street in the town is being renamed, but nobody seems to know whom after. A chance encounter between a student running late to his thesis defense, and a young woman determined to leave the town forever. 25 years earlier, Genrikh Zakaryan, a young resistance fighter, smuggles a secret Nazi operations map through occupied territory. Imaginings and history meld into one, echoes of past and future coalesce: “the fate of Genrikh Zakaryan is intangibly intertwined with the fate of today’s youth.”

Bridges Over Oblivion

1970

The Mountain poster
7.0

The plane crashes in the mountains. Marselin, who has a penchant for adventure, convinces his brother Isay to climb the mountains and "clean out" the pockets of the dead passengers. Heroes with different human characteristics appear before a moral choice. The film is based on the novel by Henri Troyat.

The Mountain

1978

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

No artwork available
8.0

Aghun, early married by her despotic father against her will, wages a war against her husband, her family, the village, the world... She couldn't restrain even when the war is won.

Autumn Sun

1977

No artwork available
9.0

Following the death of his beloved but unfaithful wife, a sculptor creates a mysterious fountain upon her grave in her honour – one whose water only flows in his presence. As the years pass, his son becomes determined to discover its secret.

The Spring Heghnar

1971

Stone Valley poster
NR

The descendants of refugees from Western Armenia are building a new village in a stone valley. They have different destinies, but they have united with one goal - to grow a beautiful garden on a rocky barren land.

Stone Valley

1977

The Star of Hope poster
6.0

Two part film about David Bek and Mkhitar Sparapet's major Armenian uprising against Safavid Persia in the Syunik region in the 18th century.

The Star of Hope

1978

Series credits