Why Does The River Roar?

Name: Why Does The River Roar?
Genre: drama, war
Released: 1959
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 7
Cast: Hrachia Nersisyan, Avet Avetisyan, Frunze Dovlatyan, Mher Mkrtchyan, Davit Malyan

Why Does The River Roar? (1959) — drama, war film. Directed by Grigori Melik-Avakyan. Starring Hrachia Nersisyan, Avet Avetisyan, Frunze Dovlatyan, Mher Mkrtchyan. This page maps 6 characters and 12 relationships between them as an interactive character network.

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Story Analysis

A wartime exile's perilous journey to cross the Araks River and return to his homeland.

Drama, War · 7/10 · 90 min · 1959

Atanes Ghambaryan, resident of Armenian border village, after the captivity during the World War II, turns up abroad in Turkey and dreams of returning to his homeland. During one of night patrols, border guard Armen who is in love with Ghambaryan's daughter Seda, recognizes him on the other side of the river Araks.

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Grigori Melik-Avakyan
screenplay

Mikhail Ovchinnikov
script editor

L. Nersisyan
actor

as Atanes Ghambaryan

Hrachia Nersisyan
actor

as Burnazyan, kolkhoz director

Avet Avetisyan

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