Personal Info
Birth date
1892-05-31 (133 Years)
Day of death
1965-04-27
Gender
Male
Known for
Directing
Place of birth
Erivan, Russian Empire
Also known as
Amo Bek-Nazarov
Համո Բեկնազարյան
Амо Бек-Назаров
Amo Bek-Nazaroff
Aleqsandre Bek-Nazarovi
Ambartsum Bek-Nazaryan
Hamo Bek-Nazaryan
Biography
Hamo Beknazarian (Armenian: Համո Բեկնազարյան; Russian: Амбарцум Бек-Назаров; 19 May 1891 – 27 April 1965), also known as Hamo Bek-Nazarov or Amo Bek-Nazarian, was an Armenian film director, actor and screenwriter.
Filmography
Nasreddin in Khujand, or the Enchanted Prince
6.8
Overview:
Based on the popular comedy novel, as well as many international anecdotes about Nasreddin Hodja, a witty Muslim traveler.Satan Triumphant
6.8
Overview:
Pastor Talnoх furiously urges the flock to fight temptations, but he himself becomes a victim of temptation. In his house appears Satan, pushing the hero to theft and spiritual fall.David Bek
3.5
Overview:
The Armenian national hero, David Bek, leads a major Armenian uprising against Safavid Persia in the Syunik region in the 18th century.The Second Caravan
6
Overview:
Armenians living in Chicago decide to leave the capitalist United States and emigrate to Soviet Armenia after World War II.The House on the Volcano
5.5
Overview:
An aging drilling foreman recounts the brutal suppression of an oil workers’ strike in pre-revolutionary Baku.Zare
5
Overview:
Immediately prior to the Russian Revolution, a young shepherd Seydo and his girlfriend Zare struggle for their right to a happy love in a Yazidi Kurdish village in Russian Armenia.Zangezur
NYR
Overview:
The film is about the civil war in the Zangezur (Syunik) province of Armenia in the early 1920s. The last Dashnak battalions headed by Sparapet Nzhdeh still opposed both the incursion of Red Army and the local Bolshevik partisans.Shor and Shorshor
NYR
Overview:
Two friends, Shor and Shorshor, both idlers and drunkards, have many comical adventures and get into lot of trouble.Pepo
4.4
Overview:
A poor but honest fisherman Pepo opposes a cunning trader Zimzimov, who tries to rob him by trickery refusing to pay a lost bill. Pepo choses prison to paying-off his honour.Khaspush
1
Overview:
The movie is about the suppressed revolt of "khaspushes", Persian peasants and craftsmen in 1891.Honor
4
Overview:
Namus (Armenian: Նամուս, meaning "honor") is a 1925 silent film by Hamo Beknazarian, based on Alexander Shirvanzade's 1885 novel of the same name, which denounces the despotic rites and customs of Caucasian families. It is widely recognized as the first Armenian feature film.In the Pillory
2
Overview:
Nunu and Iago are in love with each other. The married guard Girgola wants to get hold of the woman. Girgola gets Iago arrested and makes Nunu marry his retarded brother. On one occasion he finds the woman alone and rapes her. Nunu jumps in the river to commit suicide but gets saved by Iago’s friends. Iago escapes from jail, but Girgola attacks his hideout and haves him killed together with his friends. Girgola also kills Nunu’s old father and accuses Nunu of the murder. Nunu is tied to a pole and dies in the exile.Anahit
NYR
Overview:
The prince falls in love with an ordinary girl and marries her. Later, when enemies capture the prince, it's his young wife who gets him out of trouble.Igdenbu
2
Overview:
Based on Nikolai Lovtsov's story "The Contraband Trust". About events in the village of gold hunters in the Far East. The action takes place in 1923.The Daughter
NYR
Overview:
One of the few Armenian fictions of the 1940s, this parable about the aftermath of World War II reveals the director's deeply humanistic vision, who finds the epic and the universal in minor and private subjects.Sevil
5.4
Overview:
After the play of same name of Jafar Jabbarli. This melodrama is about the woman who had unhappy homelife and tried to free herself from shariat rules.The Lost Treasure
2
Overview:
During the Civil War, a long time friends Ilya, Tanya and Tevdore decide to find the treasure, which is hidden by the counter revolutionists. After many precarious efforts the disguised friends manage somehow to penetrate the enemy’s camp and attend their leadership’s party. Tanya enchants the enemy Commander Kleshchuk and gets hold of the key of his apartment. The friends steal the treasure, baffle Kleshchuk’s pursuit and return the treasure to the government.Acting
1922The Suram Fortress as Durmishkhani
1918The Devil's Scherzo as The Devil
1918The Shame of the Orlov's House as Orlov's child
1918Lies as Unknown
1918Three Thieves as Cascarilla
1917Satan Triumphant as The croupier
1917It Was Like That, But It Won't Be as Unknown
1917Tsar's Oprichniki as Unknown
1917Courtesan and Fisherman as The fisherman
1916Mysterious World as Zolotnitsyn, chairman of the Aesthetes Club
1916Yuriy Nagorniy as Yuriy Nagorniy, the artist
1916Girls Who Don't Get Married as Evgeniy
1915The Sons of Pyotr Smirnov as Aleksey Smirnov
Directing
1960Nasreddin in Khujand, or the Enchanted Prince ... Director
1950The Second Caravan ... Director
1947Anahit ... Director
1944David Bek ... Director
1942The Daughter ... Director
1938Zangezur ... Director
1935Pepo ... Director
1930Land of Nairi ... Director
1930Igdenbu ... Director
1929Sevil ... Director
1929The House on the Volcano ... Director
1928Khaspush ... Director
1926Zare ... Director
1926Shor and Shorshor ... Director
1926Honor ... Director
1926Natela ... Director
1924The Lost Treasure ... Director
1923In the Pillory ... Director
Writing
1960Nasreddin in Khujand, or the Enchanted Prince ... Screenplay
1944David Bek ... Writer
1938Zangezur ... Writer
1935Pepo ... Writer
1929The House on the Volcano ... Writer
1928Khaspush ... Writer
1926Zare ... Writer
1926Natela ... Screenplay
1924The Lost Treasure ... Screenplay
1923In the Pillory ... Screenplay