Hamo Beknazarian ( hy, Համո Բեկնազարյան; russian: Амбарцум Бек-Назаров; 19 May 1891 – 27 April 1965), also known as Hamo Bek-Nazarov or Amo Bek-Nazarian, was a
Soviet
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Armenian
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film director, actor and screenwriter.
Biography
Hamo Beknazarian was born on 19 May 1891 in
Yerevan
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, the capital of
Armenia
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,
Russian Empire
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. His career in cinema started in 1914, when a casual acquaintance offered him a part in a film. Since that part, he decided to pursue a career in cinema. Between 1914 and 1918, he played about 70 parts, becoming a popular actor in pre-Revolutionary Russian film. In 1920, instead of going to
Armenia
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as he had decided, he went to
Tbilisi
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where he developed a film department for the Georgian Commissioner's office of Public Education. He shot many films in
Tbilisi
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, including ''Patricide'' and ''Lost Treasures''. In 1925, he shot his first
Armenian film and moved to Armenia. In 1933, he shot the first Armenian sound film ''
Pepo''. In 1941, Beknazarian was awarded the
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. Besides feature films, he also shot a few documentaries.
Hamo Beknazarian died on 27 April 1965 in
Moscow
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,
USSR
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.
Filmography
* 1922: ''
The Suram Fortress'', actor
* 1923: ''
Patricide
Patricide is (i) the act of killing one's own father, or (ii) a person who kills their own father or stepfather. The word ''patricide'' derives from the Greek word ''pater'' (father) and the Latin suffix ''-cida'' (cutter or killer). Patricid ...
'', director
* 1925: ''
Namus
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'', scriptwriter, director
* 1925: ''
The Case of Tariel Mklavadze's Murder'', director
* 1926: ''
Natela'', director
* 1926: ''
Shor and Shorshor'', scriptwriter, director
* 1927: ''
Zare'', scriptwriter, director
* 1928: ''
Khaspush
Khaspush ( hy, Խասփուշ, russian: Хас-пуш) is a 1928 Soviet Armenian drama and war film, directed by Hamo Beknazarian and starring Hrachia Nersisyan, M. Dulgaryan and Avet Avetisyan
Synopsis
The film is about the Persian
Persian ...
'', co-scriptwriter, director
* 1928: ''
The House on the Volcano
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'', co-scriptwriter, director
* 1943: ''
David-Bek'', co-scriptwriter, director
* 1935: ''
Pepo'', scriptwriter, director
* 1938: ''
Zangezur
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'', co-scriptwriter, director
* 1947: ''
Anahit'', director
References
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External links
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Brief biography and filmographyby the Armenian Association of Film Critics and Cinema Journalists
1891 births
1965 deaths
20th-century Armenian male actors
20th-century screenwriters
Film people from Yerevan
Male actors from Yerevan
People's Artists of Armenia
Stalin Prize winners
Recipients of the Order of Lenin
Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Recipients of the Order of the Red Star
Armenian film directors
Armenian male film actors
Armenian male silent film actors
Armenian screenwriters
Soviet Armenians
Soviet film directors
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Soviet male film actors
Soviet male silent film actors
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