Hamo Beknazarian

Hamo Beknazarian
File:Hamo Beknazarian.jpg
Born	Ambartsum Beknazaryan May 19, 1891 Yerevan, Armenia
Died	Moscow, USSR
Nationality	Armenian
Occupation	film director, actor and screenwriter
Awards	Stalin Prize

Hamo Beknazarian (Armenian: Համո Բեկնազարյան; Russian: Амбарцум Бек-Назаров) (May 19, 1891 – April 27, 1965), also known as Hamo Bek-Nazarov or Amo Bek-Nazarian, was a Soviet Armenian film director, actor and screenwriter

Biography

Hamo Beknazarian was born on May 19, 1891 in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, Russian Empire. 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 Armenia as he had decided, he went to Tbilisi where he developed a film department for the Georgian Commissioner's office of Public Education. He shot many films in Tbilisi, including "The Father Murderer" 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 Stalin Prize. Besides feature films he also shot few documentaries.

Hamo Beknazarian died on April 27, 1965 in Moscow, USSR.

Hamo Beknazaryan's grave in Armenian Cemetery of Moscow

Filmography

• 1922: The Suram Fortress, actor
• 1923: Patricide, director
• 1925: Namus, director
• 1925: The Case of Tariel Mklavadze's Murder, director
• 1926: Natela, director
• 1926: Shor and Shorshor, scriptwriter, director
• 1943: David-Bek, co-scriptwriter, director
• 1935: Pepo, director
• 1938: Zangezur, director
• 1947: Anahit, director

External links

• Hamo Beknazarian at the Internet Movie Database