Pepo (film)
Pepo | |
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Amkino Corporation (1935) (USA) (subtitled) | |
Release date | 9 October 1935 |
Running time | 88 min. |
Country | Soviet Union |
Language | Armenian |
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
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Pepo's statue in Yerevan
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Pepo
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Pepo and Zimzimov
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Kekel
References
- ^ Tatiana Egorova. Soviet Film Music (Contemporary Music Studies). (London: Routledge, 1997), p. 54
- ^ "Armenian cinema, 1935". Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 11 August 2007.
- ^ "Pepo (1935)". Retrieved 11 August 2007.
- ^ "Pepo:Synopsis". Retrieved 11 August 2007.[permanent dead link]
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pepo (film).
- Pepo at IMDb