Pepo (film)
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Pepo is an Armenian film
directed by Hamo Beknazarian
which is based on Gabriel Sundukyan's 1876 play of the same name. Pepo was the first Armenian sound film ever created. Considered the 'most outstanding' film in Soviet cinema before the outbreak of World War II, the film has gained international recognition and has come to represent Armenian culture abroad.
fisherman Pepo (Hrachia Nersisyan
) who opposes a cunning trader Arutin Kirakozovich Zimzimov (Avet Avetisyan), who has robbed the former by trickery. The story comes to a conclusion of sorts when Pepo falls in love.
had conducted its genocidal campaign
against the Armenians.
Cinema of Armenia
The cinema of Armenia was born on April 16, 1923, when the Armenian State Committee on Cinema was established by the government decree.In March 1924, the first Armenian film studio: Armenfilm was established in Yerevan, starting with Soviet Armenia the first Armenian documentary film.Namus was...
directed 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:...
which is based on Gabriel Sundukyan's 1876 play of the same name. Pepo was the first Armenian sound film ever created. Considered the 'most outstanding' film in Soviet cinema before the outbreak of World War II, the film has gained international recognition and has come to represent Armenian culture abroad.
Plot
Set in 19th century Tiflis, the film details the day-to-day life of a poor but honest ArmenianArmenians
Armenian people or Armenians are a nation and ethnic group native to the Armenian Highland.The largest concentration is in Armenia having a nearly-homogeneous population with 97.9% or 3,145,354 being ethnic Armenian....
fisherman Pepo (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....
) who opposes a cunning trader Arutin Kirakozovich Zimzimov (Avet Avetisyan), who has robbed the former by trickery. The story comes to a conclusion of sorts when Pepo falls in love.
Cast
- Hrachia NersisyanHrachia NersisyanHrachia 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....
- Pepo - Tatyana Makhmuryan - Kekel, his sister
- David Malyan - Kakuli, a friend
- Avet Avetisyan - Arutin Kirakozovich Zimzimov
- Hambartsum Khachanyan - Darcho, merchant (as A. Khazanyan)
- Hasmik Agopyan - Shushan (as Hasmik)
- Grigor Avetyan - Giko (as G. Avetyan)
- Nina Manucharyan - Natel (as N. Manuizauryan)
- Armen Gulakyan - Duduli, a friend
- N. Gevorgyan - Efemia
- Gurgen Gabrielyan - Kinto
- A. Kefchiyan - Pichkhul
- H. Vanyan - Margurit
- M. Garagash - Gevorg, clerk
- Vladimir Barsky - Judge
- V. Bagratuni - Samson
- M. Beroyan - Darcho's mother
- M. Jrpetyan - Gossiper
Release
Pepo was the first full-length feature produced in Soviet Armenia. It was also the first Armenian sound film ever created. An impressive aspect of the film is not that it was made well but that it was made, at all. The film came into existence only 12 years after the Ottoman empireOttoman Empire
The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...
had conducted its genocidal campaign
Armenian Genocide
The Armenian Genocide—also known as the Armenian Holocaust, the Armenian Massacres and, by Armenians, as the Great Crime—refers to the deliberate and systematic destruction of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire during and just after World War I...
against the Armenians.