Cinema of Armenia was born on April 16 April 16 is the 106th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 259 days remaining until the end of the year, 1923 1923 was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar, when the Armenian State Committee on Cinema was established by the government decree.
In March 1924, the first Armenian film studio: Armenfilm (Armenian The Armenian language is an Indo-European language spoken by the Armenian people. It is the official language of the Republic of Armenia as well as in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The language is also widely spoken by Armenian communities in the Armenian diaspora. It has its own script, the Armenian alphabet: Հայֆիլմ "Haykino," Russian Russian is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest native language in Europe. Russian belongs to the family of Indo-European languages and is one of three living members of the East Slavic languages, the others being Belarusian and Ukrainian (and possibly Rusyn,: Арменкино "Armenkino") was established in Yerevan Yerevan is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's oldest continuously-inhabited cities. It is situated on the Hrazdan River, and is the administrative, cultural, and industrial center of the country. It has been the capital of Armenia since 1918 and the twelfth in the history of Armenia, starting with Soviet Armenia (1924) the first Armenian documentary film Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt, in one fashion or another, to "document" reality. Although "documentary film" originally referred to movies shot on film stock, it has subsequently expanded to include video and digital productions that can be either direct-to-video or made.
Namus was the first Armenian silent A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially spoken dialogue. The idea of combining motion pictures with recorded sound is nearly as old as film itself, but because of the technical challenges involved, synchronized dialogue was only made possible in the late 1920s with the introduction of the Vitaphone system. After The black and white Black-and-white is a number of monochrome forms in visual arts. Most forms of visual technology start out in black and white, then slowly evolve into color as technology progresses.[citation needed] film (1926, Namus at the Internet Movie Database The Internet Movie Database is an online database of information related to movies, actors, television shows, production crew personnel, video games, and most recently, fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. IMDb launched on October 17, 1990, and in 1998 was acquired by Amazon.com), directed by Hamo Beknazarian and based on a play of Alexander Shirvanzade Alexander Shirvanzade was born on April 7, 1858 in Shamakhi and died on August 7, 1935 in Yerevan). Shirvanzade was an Armenian playwright and novelist. His original name was Alexander Movsesyan describing the ill fate of two lovers, who were engaged by their families to each other since childhood, but because of violations of namus (a tradition of honor), the girl was married by her father to another person.
The first sound film A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades would pass before reliable synchronization was made commercially practical. The first commercial screening of movies, Pepo was created in 1935, director Hamo Beknazarian.
Among more recent directors we should mention:
- Sergei Parajanov (best known for The Color of Pomegranates)
- Henrik Malyan
- Artavazd Peleshian
- Hamo Beknazarian
- Edmond Keosayan
- Frunze Dovlatyan
- Mikhail Vartanov Mikhail Vartanov is a Russo-Armenian film director and writer
- Levon Mkrtchyan
- Atom Egoyan Atom Egoyan, OC (born July 19, 1960) is a critically acclaimed Canadian film maker of Armenian descent, known as one of the most remarkable figures of contemporary independent filmmaking. His work often explores themes of alienation and isolation, featuring characters whose interactions are mediated through technology, bureaucracy or other power
- J. Michael Hagopian, for his acclaimed documentaries on the Armenian Genocide The date of the onset of the genocide is conventionally held to be April 24, 1915, the day that Ottoman authorities arrested some 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople. Thereafter, the Ottoman military uprooted Armenians from their homes and forced them to march for hundreds of miles, depriving them of food and water,, modern Armenian history, and Historical Armenia
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