The best Armen Dzhigarkhanyan’s drama movies

Armen Dzhigarkhanyan

Armen Dzhigarkhanyan

03/10/1935- 14/11/2020
We present our ranking of the best Armen Dzhigarkhanyan’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Armen Dzhigarkhanyan.
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City Zero

City Zero
7.4/10
An engineer in charge of the production line of a factory in Moscow is sent to a small town to try to specify the distributor the new dimensions of a mechanic part they need. But in this town everybody seems to be crazy (a secretary who works naked, a group of people take the engineer as a rock & roll player, etc) and, in addition, this man is witness of a suicide, so he is trapped inside the town.

Teheran '43

Teheran '43
6.7/10
Documents reveal in 1980 that the Germans planned to kill the Big Three in Teheran in 1943.This story starts in 1980 in Paris as the memories of Andrei Borodin (Igor Kostolevsky), a Soviet agent, take the action back to 1943 during the Teheran meetings of Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill. A high-ranking Nazi officer developed a plan to assassinate the three world leaders in order to undermine the Allied forces. He commissioned the German agent Max Richard (Armen Dzhigarkhanian) to carry out his plan, but it failed miserably due to the quick action and thinking of Andrei. While in Teheran, Andrei met a French woman, Marie Louni (Natalia Belokhvostikova), living in the city and they had a brief but intense affair. Nearly four decades later, the Nazi officer has been captured - but not for long. Freed by terrorists, the officer is hunting down the German agent who failed to carry out the planned assassinations. Max lives at Françoise (Claude Jade), a young French woman, who hides him.

100 Days Before the Command

100 Days Before the Command
5.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/02/1991
  • Character: Бригадный командир
Visually astonishing, erotically charged and emotionally jarring. '100 Days Before the Command' is Hussein Erkenov's courageous and stinging indictment of communism. Five young Red Army recruits struggle for survival against the merciless violence that surrounds them on a daily basis. Their only means of saving their dignity is by preserving the humanity and compassion they share for each other.

Vanished Empire

Vanished Empire
6.8/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 14/02/2008
  • Character: Дедушка Сергея
This story take place in Moscow during the 1970s and unfolds around the love triangle between two young men and a girl who study at the same university. They argue, make up, and face their first disappointments and victories. While busy with personal lives and loves, they miss foreseeing that the country in which they were born and live will soon disappear from the map.

Demons

Demons
7.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 27/05/1992
  • Character: Игнат Лебядкин

Стратегия риска

Стратегия риска
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 28/11/1978

His Nickname Is Beast

His Nickname Is Beast
5.6/10
Saveliy Govorkov, an Afghanistan war veteran tries to fight mafia in his own town.

The Sixth of July

The Sixth of July
7.4/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 14/10/1968
  • Character: Prosh Proshyan
In 1918, V.I. Lenin and Dzerzhinsky are destroying opponents and strengthening dictatorship using the Soviet secret police, predecessor of KGB.

Гамлет XXI век

Гамлет XXI век
4.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 21/11/2011

Одиннадцать надежд

Одиннадцать надежд
5.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 22/03/1976

Gikor

Gikor
7.7/10
  • Genre: DramaFamily
  • Release: 15/05/1982
  • Character: Bazaz Artem
A village boy meets his tragic fate when he is sent to the city to work for a rich trader.

A Little Crane

A Little Crane
7.6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 07/04/1969
  • Character: Styshnoy
Based on the novel of Mikhail Alekseyev "Bread — as a Noun." About the fate of a Russian woman who endured all the hardships of war and post-war life. After the war, those few who survived at the front returned to their native village. But Marfa's husband, whom she had been waiting for for so many years, would never return. Marfa, a beautiful and proud woman, remains true to her only love...

Assassin of the Tsar

Assassin of the Tsar
6.8/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 02/02/1991
  • Character: Александр Егорович
A new doctor from Moscow arrives at a provincial mental institution. His interest is the peculiarities of the psyche of a patient who believes that he is Yakov Yurovsky, the man who assassinated the last Russian tsar. In the course of their conversations it transpires that the patient is a kind of philosopher, not without a gift for suggestion. In a while the doctor himself falls under his patient’s influence: he tends to relive that fatal night of June 16-17, 1918 when, without any investigation or trial, Tsar Nicholas II, who had recently abdicated, was murdered, together with his wife, daughters and incurably ill heir. Soon the doctor realizes that the tragedy of the last Russian tsar is in part his own tragedy, too...

The Seagull

The Seagull
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 14/02/1972
  • Character: Shamrayev
Based on the play of the same name by Anton Chekhov. About the searches and doubts of the Russian intelligentsia at the end of the 19th century. Events unfold on the estate of Pyotr Sorin, which brought together representatives of secular society - actress Irina Arkadina, the host's sister and her lover, the famous writer Trigorin. Sorin’s nephew, Konstantin Treplev, in love with a neighbor girl Nina Zarechnaya, who dreams of becoming an actress, writes for her a play that she plays in the scenery of Sorin’s garden.

Made in USSR

Made in USSR
5.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 15/08/1991
  • Character: Viktor Andreyevich
An ordinary high school turns into an ordinary model of a totalitarian state. The trivial story of the mysterious theft of a VCR turns into a grotesque and gloomy farce when interim director Viktor Andreyevich, with a callous dictatorial hand, terrorises students and teachers. And now the young "patriots" punish peers-"dissidents", joining the ranks of the "pioneer-jugend." And an ordinary school laboratory turns into a place for torture...

Girl without dowry

Girl without dowry
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 19/11/1974
Larisa Ogudolova (Nina Alisova), unlike her sisters, refuses to obey her mother's wish that she marry a wealthy old man in order to collect a dowry. She falls in love with a dashing scoundrel who betrays her in about sixty minutes. Griefing, she turns down another suitor, honest but plain, who kills her in despair.

Hello, It's Me!

Hello, It's Me!
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 26/03/1966
  • Character: Артём Манвелян
Artyom (Armen Dzhigarkhanyan) is a scientist who buries himself in his work after the woman he loves dies during the war. He is informed of his sweetheart's death by a young woman, and soon love blossoms between the lonely doctor and the emerging beauty. This is the big-screen debut of Margarita Terekhova in the popular film that was seen by over 20 million in the USSR.

Rafferty

Rafferty
6.8/10
  • Genre: DramaMystery
  • Release: 19/03/1980
  • Character: Томми Фарричетти
The story of the trial of the trade union boss Jack Rafferty. With great force and astute critical insight, corruption and crime are exposed, accompanying the advancement of Western leaders to power.

Часы без стрелок

Часы без стрелок
4.1/10

Brillianty dlya diktatury proletariata

Brillianty dlya diktatury proletariata
6.2/10
In 1921, the Cheka became aware that gold and jewelry were stolen from the treasury of Gokhran, and that a special organization was involved in transporting the stolen to Estonia. Scout Maksim Isayev is sent to this country. He establishes that the cipher of the Soviet embassy Olenetskaya works for the German resident Nolmar, with whom employees of Gokhran Kozlovskaya and an appraiser Yakov Shelekhes are associated. As a result of the provocation, Isayev was arrested. In the prison cell, he finds himself together with the famous Russian writer Nikandrov, who could not find himself in post-revolutionary Russia and went abroad. Released soon by the efforts of his comrades, Isayev continues the struggle for the fate of Nikandrov — for his return to his homeland.

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