Pepo (film)
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| Directed by | Hamo Beknazarian Armen Gulakyan |
| Written by | Hamo Beknazarian |
| Starring | Hrachia Nersisyan Avet Avetisyan Hasmik Agopyan Grigor Avetyan |
| Music by | Aram Khachaturian |
| Cinematography | Dmitri Feldman |
| Distributed by | Amkino Corporation (1935) (USA) (subtitled) |
| Release date(s) | October 9, 1935 |
| Running time | 88 min. |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Language | Armenian |
Pepo (Armenian: Պեպո) 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. Music for the film was created by Aram Khachaturian, a well-known Armenian composer, who was born in Tiflis himself. Considered the 'most outstanding' film in Soviet cinema before the outbreak of World War II,[1] the film has gained international recognition and has come to represent Armenian culture abroad.[2]
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Set in 19th century Tiflis, the film details the day-to-day life of a poor but honest Armenian fisherman Pepo (Hrachia Nersisyan) who opposes a cunning trader Arutin Kirakozovich Zimzimov (Avet Avetisyan), who has robbed the former by trickery.[3] The story comes to a conclusion of sorts when Pepo falls in love.[4]
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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 empire had conducted its genocidal campaign against the Armenians.[4]
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- ^ Tatiana Egorova. Soviet Film Music (Contemporary Music Studies). (London: Routledge, 1997), p. 54
- ^ "Armenian cinema, 1935". Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. http://web.archive.org/web/20070927232103/http://www.armeniadiaspora.com/entertainment/cinema/1935a.html. Retrieved 2007-08-11.
- ^ "Pepo (1935)". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026862/combined. Retrieved 2007-08-11.
- ^ a b "Pepo:Synopsis". http://movies.msn.com/movies/movie.aspx?m=376471&silentchk=1&mp=syn. Retrieved 2007-08-11.
[edit] External links
- Pepo at the Internet Movie Database
