There Lived Once a Man (1968)
Old village doctor Ruben Azaryan is going to operate a sick child, although he feels bad. Perhaps this is the last operation in his life. He remembers his youth, the institute, the student Maro in love with him, the war, the front and the first love - nurse Svetlana, who died during a raid on their hospital. Then marriage to Maro, a difficult job as a village doctor. One day he refuses to have an abortion for one widow. The widow commits suicide from shame. Her death still torments Azaryan. But hundreds of people he saved are also remembered, which means that life was not lived in vain ...
Director: Yuri Yerzinkyan
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Armen Dzhigarkhanyan as Ruben |
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Zemfira Tsakhilova as Maro |
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Valentina Egorenkova as Svetlana |
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Ovak Galoyan as |
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Gurgen Tonunts as |
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Ashot Nersisyan as |
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Nikolai Gritsenko as |
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Zinaida Slavina as |
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Verjaluys Mirijanyan as |
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Yuri Avsharov as |
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Nikolay Dupak as |
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Sos Sargsyan as |
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Israel Buniatyan as |
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Feliks Yegiazaryan as |
| Directing | Yuri Yerzinkyan | Director |
| Writing | Gayane Arakelyan | Writer |
| Writing | Alexander Araksmanyan | Writer |
| Writing | Arshavir Dabni | Writer |
| Sound | Edgar Oganesyan | Music |
| Editing | V. Haykazyan | Editor |
| Art | Alexander Shakaryan | Art Direction |
| Camera | Artashes Jalalyan | Director of Photography |