Why Does The River Roar?

1h 30m
DramaWar
6.5

Atanes Ghambaryan, resident of Armenian border village, after the captivity during the World War II, turns up abroad in Turkey and dreams of returning to his homeland. During one of night patrols, border guard Armen who is in love with Ghambaryan's daughter Seda, recognizes him on the other side of the river Araks.

Cast

Hrachia Nersisyan
Atanes Ghambaryan
Avet Avetisyan
Burnazyan, kolkhoz director
Frunze Dovlatyan
Armen Manukyan
Mher Mkrtchyan
Khachik
Davit Malyan
Darbinyan
Lilik Hovhannisyan
Seda Ghambaryan
Nikolai Kazakov
Samokhin
Levon Tukhikyan
Suren
Verjaluys Mirijanyan
Paytzar
A. Arazyan
Ashkhen
Lev Lobov
Sokolov
S. Zhurabayev
Bigildayev
O. Gerasimov
Andreev
Azer Kurbanov
Turkish border commissar
A. Adalyan
Firuza
Ashot Nersisyan
Old Man
Leonid Chembarsky
Irrigator

Crew

Grigori Melik-Avakyan
Director
L. Nersisyan
Script Editor
Mikhail Ovchinnikov
Screenplay
G. Meliksetyan
Editor
Zhirayr Vardanyan
Director of Photography
Ye. Tzaturyan
Assistant Director
P. Galstyan
Camera Operator
A. Sargsyan
Costume Design
Khachik Zahalyan
Makeup Artist
N. Jalalyan
Sound
Gayane Arakelyan
Visual Effects
Artemi (Harutyun) Ayvazyan
Music
Rafael Saroyan
Production Manager
Rafael P. Babayan
Art Direction

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