Pepo (film)

Pepo
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 dates
 9 October 1935
Running time
 88 min.
Country Soviet Union
Language Armenian

Pepo (Armenian: Պեպո) is a 1935 Soviet film directed by Hamo Beknazarian which is based on Gabriel Sundukyan's 1876 play of the same name. Pepo was the first Armenian language 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]

Plot

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]

Cast

  • Hrachia Nersisyan – 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

References

  1. ↑ Tatiana Egorova. Soviet Film Music (Contemporary Music Studies). (London: Routledge, 1997), p. 54
  2. ↑ "Armenian cinema, 1935". Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 11 August 2007.
  3. ↑ "Pepo (1935)". Retrieved 11 August 2007.
  4. ↑ "Pepo:Synopsis". Retrieved 11 August 2007.

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