A Bride from the North (1975)
Artak has served his military service in the Russian countryside where he meets Valya. But Valya's mother refuses to send her only daughter to “these far highlands, where earthquakes happen all the time”. Artak is forced to ask his contrasting and numerous relatives –Armenian villagers– to visit a remote Russian village to bring a bride to Armenia.
Director: Nerses Hovhannisyan
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Ara Babadzhanyan as Artak |
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Natalya Bespalova as Valya |
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Armen Dzhigarkhanyan as Serob |
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Murad Kostanyan as Murad |
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Verjaluys Mirijanyan as Arusyak |
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Yervand Manaryan as Yervand |
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Inna Makarova as Natalia |
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Stanislav Chekan as Ivan |
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Yuri Medvedev as Nikolay |
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Ashot Nersisyan as Azat |
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Larisa Kronberg as Марфа учительница |
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Nina Dobero as Client at the hairdresser |
| Directing | Nerses Hovhannisyan | Director |
| Writing | Zhora Arutyunyan | Writer |
| Art | Rafael S. Babayan | Art Direction |
| Costume & Make-Up | S. Prigozhina | Makeup & Hair |
| Directing | A. Davtyan | Second Assistant Director |
| Production | L. Muradyan | Production Manager |
| Directing | S. Zeytuntsyan | Second Assistant Director |
| Writing | S. Arustamyan | Script Editor |
| Editing | A. Simonyan | Editor |
| Sound | Roland Kazaryan | Sound |
| Writing | Perj Zeytuntsyan | Script Editor |
| Art | S. Markosyan | Art Direction |
| Directing | Nadezhda Groysman | First Assistant Director |
| Sound | Arno Babadzhanyan | Music |
| Directing | L. Hakobyan | Second Assistant Director |
| Camera | Ashot Movsisyan | Assistant Camera |
| Camera | G. Barseghyan | Assistant Camera |
| Camera | Stepan Martirosyan | Director of Photography |