Pepo (film)

Pepo
USSR (Armenfilm) movie "Pepo" (Պեպո) title.
Directed by	Hamo Beknazarian Armen Gulakyan
Written by	Hamo Beknazarian
Starring	Hrachia Nersisyan Avet Avetisyan Hasmik Grigor Avetyan
Cinematography	Dmitri Feldman
Music by	Aram Khachaturian
Production company	Armenfilm
Distributed by	Amkino Corporation (1935) (USA) (subtitled)
Release date	9 October 1935 (1935-10-09)
Running time	88 min.
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Armenian

Pepo (Armenian: Պեպո) is a 1935 Soviet drama film based on Gabriel Sundukyan's 1876 play of the same name, scripted and directed by Hamo Beknazarian, with music composed by Aram Khachaturian. Considered the 'most outstanding' film in Soviet cinema before the outbreak of World War II,^[1] the film has gained international recognition and has come to represent Armenian culture abroad.^[2]

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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
Pepo and Zimzimov
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]}

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List of compositions
Ballets	Gayane (1939–41) "Sabre Dance" Spartacus (1950–54)
Orchestral	Symphony No. 2 The Bell Symphony (1944) Symphony No. 3 Symphony-Poem (1947) State Anthem of the Armenian SSR (1944) Suite from Masquerade (1944)
Concerti	Piano Concerto in D-flat major (1936) Violin Concerto in D minor (1940) Cello Concerto in E minor (1946)
Piano	Toccata (1932)
Incidental music	Masquerade (1941)
Film scores	Pepo (1934–35) Zangezur (1937–38) Salavat Yulayev (1939) Girl No. 217 (1945) The Battle of Stalingrad (1949) Othello (1955)
Related articles	House-Museum of Aram Khachaturian Music of Armenia Shostakovich v. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.
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