Pepo (film)

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Pepo
Amkino Corporation (1935) (USA) (subtitled)
Release date
9 October 1935
Running time
88 min.
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageArmenian

Pepo (

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
  • Hasmik – Shushan
  • Grigor Avetyan – Giko
  • Nina Manucharyan – Natel
  • 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

Images

  • Pepo's statue in Yerevan
    Pepo's statue in Yerevan
  • Pepo
    Pepo
  • Pepo and Zimzimov
    Pepo and Zimzimov
  • Kekel
    Kekel

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.[permanent dead link]

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