''The Tango of Our Childhood'' ( hy, Մեր մանկության տանգոն, russian: Танго нашего детства) is a 1984

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tragicomedy film written and directed by

Albert Mkrtchyan Albert Mkrtchyan ( hy, Ալբերտ Մկրտչյան; February 27, 1937 – February 28, 2018) was an Armenian film director, screenwriter, actor, and recipient of the People's Artist of the Republic of Armenia award (2003). He was the younger ...

and starring Frunzik Mkrtchyan (his brother) and Galya Novents. Novents' performance as a mother who struggles to raise her children during post-World War II Armenia was awarded Special Mention at the

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. Mkrtchyan dedicated the autobiographical story to his hometown of

Gyumri Gyumri ( hy, Գյումրի, ) is an urban municipal community and the second-largest city in Armenia, serving as the administrative center of Shirak Province in the northwestern part of the country. By the end of the 19th century, when the city w ...

. The filming locations highlighted the historic buildings of Gyumri which were marked for preservation as the Kumayri Reserve in 1980. ''

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'' described Novents' performance as that of "a kind of Anna Magnani earth mother who acts at the top of her lungs."

Plot

The film is set in Leninakan (now

) in the aftermath of

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."Giumri 21"
''Armenian Heritage'', accessed 6 September 2017. Novents portrays a wife whose husband has left her and their three children for his wife's best friend.

Cast

* Galya Novents - Siranush * Frunzik Mkrtchyan - Ruben * Elina Agamyan - Vardush * Azat Gasparyan - Mesrop * Narine Bagdasaryan - Ruzan * Samvel Sarkisyan - Armen * Ashot Gevorkyan - Gagik * Artashes Nalbandyan - Ashot * Artashes Gedikyan - Serob * Margarita Karapetyan - Arpenik * Nona Petrosyan - Knar * Ruben Mkrtchyan - Yeghish * V. Movsisyan - Svasyan * Aleksandr Oganesyan - Zarzand * Vrezh Hakobyan - Melkonyan *Kadzhik Barsegyan - Investigator

References

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1985 films 1985 comedy-drama films Soviet-era Armenian films 1985 comedy films 1985 drama films {{1980s-drama-film-stub