Cinema OmniScriptum Cinema of Armenia / Paperback / 84 pages / 2012

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The cinema of Armenia was born on April 16, 1923, when the Armenian State Committee on Cinema was established by the government decree. In March 1924, the first Armenian film studio: Armenfilm was established in Yerevan, starting with Soviet Armenia (1924) the first Armenian documentary film. Namus was the first Armenian silent black-and-white film (1926, Namus at the Internet Movie Database), directed by Hamo Beknazarian and based on a play of Alexander Shirvanzade 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.