''Gikor'' ( hy, Գիքոր, russian: Гикор) is a 1982 Armenian drama film based on

Hovhannes Tumanyan Hovhannes Tumanyan ( hy, Հովհաննես Թումանյան, classical spelling: Յովհաննէս Թումանեան, – March 23, 1923) was an Armenian poet, writer, translator, and literary and public activist. He is the nationa ...

's poem of the same name. In

USSR The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...

, the film was released on 15 May 1982. The film was directed by Sergey Israelyan.

Plot

A village boy, Gikor by name, meets his tragic fate when he is sent to the city (

Tiflis Tbilisi ( ; ka, თბილისი ), in some languages still known by its pre-1936 name Tiflis ( ), is the capital and the largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Kura River with a population of approximately 1.5 million pe ...

by his father, Hambo (

Sos Sargsyan Sos Sargsyan ( hy, Սոս Սարգսյան; 24 October 1929 – 26 September 2013) was a prominent Armenian actor, director and writer. Biography Sos Sargsyan was born in Stepanavan in northern Armenia, at the time part of the Soviet Union. He ...

) to work for a rich trader, Bazaz Artem (

Armen Dzhigarkhanyan Armen Borisovich Dzhigarkhanyan (russian: Армен Борисович Джигарханян; hy, Արմեն Բորիսի Ջիգարխանյան, Armen Borisi Jigarkhanyan; ; 3 October 1935 – 14 November 2020) was a Soviet, Armenian, and Rus ...

Cast

Albert Gulinyan as Gikor

as Hambo
Galya Novents as Nani

as Bazaz Artem
Zhenya Avetisyan as Nato
Emma Stepanyan
L. Yeghiazaryan
Haykanush Yeremyan
M. Tovmasyan
S. Khambekyan
Svetlana Kirakosyan
Meline Hamamjyan
Ye. Manvelyan
Tigran Voskanyan
A. Jraghatspanyan
Leonard Sarkisov
Harutyun Movsisyan
S. Ajabkhanyan
R. Abalyan
R. Gyulumyan
L. Azizyan
Stepan Harutyunyan
Armen Mazmanyan
K. Barseghyan
K. Simonyan
G. Gyulumyan
A. Kocharyan
K. Grigoryan
Margarita Karapetyan
K. Hovsepyan
H. Ghazaryan
K. Ghulinyan
Ara Stepanyan

Trivia

References

External links

* 1982 drama films 1982 films Soviet-era Armenian films Armenfilm films Films set in Tbilisi Films based on works by Hovhannes Tumanyan Armenian drama films {{1980s-drama-film-stub