Zangezur (1938 film)
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Zangezur is a 1938 Soviet
Armenian film
by Hamo Beknazarian
about Dashnak opposition to the incursion of the Red Army
and the local Bolshevik
partisans in the Armenian province
of Zangezur
(present-day Syunik
) at the time of Sovietization. The film featured Hrachia Nersisyan
, Avet Avetisyan, and Hasmik Agopyan.
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
Armenian film
Armenia
Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...
by Hamo Beknazarian
Hamo Beknazarian
Hamo Beknazarian , also known as Hamo Bek Nazarov or Amo Bek-Nazarian, was an Armenian and Soviet film director.-Biography:...
about Dashnak opposition to the incursion of the Red Army
Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army started out as the Soviet Union's revolutionary communist combat groups during the Russian Civil War of 1918-1922. It grew into the national army of the Soviet Union. By the 1930s the Red Army was among the largest armies in history.The "Red Army" name refers to...
and the local Bolshevik
Bolshevik
The Bolsheviks, originally also Bolshevists , derived from bol'shinstvo, "majority") were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903....
partisans in the Armenian province
Administrative divisions of Armenia
Armenia is subdivided into eleven administrative divisions. Of these, ten are provinces, known as marzer or in the singular form marz in Armenian....
of Zangezur
Zangezur
Zangezur may refer to:* Syunik, alternative name of an Armenian geographic-historic region, nowadays one of the provinces of Armenia* Kapan, former name of a city in Armenia...
(present-day Syunik
Syunik
Syunik is the southernmost province of Armenia. It borders the Vayots Dzor marz to the north, Azerbaijan's Nakhchivan exclave to the west, Karabakh to the east, and Iran to the south. Its capital is Kapan. Other important cities and towns include Goris, Sisian, Meghri, Agarak, and Dastakert...
) at the time of Sovietization. The film featured Hrachia Nersisyan
Hrachia Nersisyan
Hrachia Nersisyan was a Soviet-Armenian film actor.Nersisyan was born in Nicomedia, Ottoman Empire and studied in Istanbul. He moved to Yerevan, Armenia in 1923, and soon became a film actor....
, Avet Avetisyan, and Hasmik Agopyan.