Dovlatov charts six days in the life of a brilliant, ironic writer who saw far beyond the rigid limits of 70s Soviet Russia. Sergei Dovlatov fought to preserve his own talent and decency with poet and writer Joseph Brodsky, while watching his artist friends got crushed by the iron-willed state machinery.
Having learned about her terrible illness and unavoidable death, Victoria, decides to leave her five-year old daughter in the case of her father-in-law.
Screen version of Yervand Otyan's "Comrade Panjuni" is powerful satire on demagoguery and hypocrisy of the Armenian politicos and political party activists.
The members of an amateur theater group share the losses and sorrows of war with Armenian provincial town's inhabitants.
In their first collaboration Melkonian and cinematographer Mikhail Vartanov film two neighbour families that both claim ownership of a huge mulberry tree growing in the middle of their two houses.
Former First Secretary of the Communist Party of Belarus Alexander Myasnikyan rebuilds Armenia following its absorption into the Soviet Union.
Vahan, a well-known elderly doctor, comes to his native village to once again try to convince his mother, who lives alone in an old house, to move to the city.
