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

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film director, actor and screenwriter.

Biography

Hamo Beknazarian was born on 19 May 1891 in

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, the capital of

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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

as he had decided, he went to

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where he developed a film department for the Georgian Commissioner's office of Public Education. He shot many films in

, 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

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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 Nāmūs is the Arabic word (Greek "νόμος") of a concept of an ethical category, a virtue, in Middle Eastern patriarchal character. Literally translated as "virtue", it is now more popularly used in a strong gender-specific context of relat ...

'', 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 The House on the Volcano (russian: Дом на вулкане) is a 1928 Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. ...

'', co-scriptwriter, director * 1943: '' David-Bek'', co-scriptwriter, director * 1935: '' Pepo'', scriptwriter, director * 1938: ''

Zangezur Zangezur ( hy, Զանգեզուր) is a historical and geographical region in Eastern Armenia on the slopes of the Zangezur Mountains which largely corresponds to the Syunik Province of the Republic of Armenia. It was ceded to Russia by Qajar I ...

'', co-scriptwriter, director * 1947: '' Anahit'', director

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