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ArmenFilm (Golden Collection)
Language: Eastern Armenian
Produced by: ArmenFilm, Armenia
Format: DVD / Color
Total Time: 85 min

1. Puypuy Mknik 1971, Hayfilm Studio, cartoon (based on D.Demirchyan’s tale of the same name), 10min. (264m), color.
Scr. R.P.Babayan, V.Podpomogov, Dir./Art Dir. R.P.Ba-bayan, Cam. A.Kyurdyan, Compos. R.Amirkhanyan, Sound K.Kurdiyan, Edit. H.Melkonyan, songs performed by R.Mkrtchyan, Prod.Manag. L.Movsisyan.

A mouse penetrates a coconut through a hole, and drinks so much coconut milk that it is unable to get out. Through that very hole, the mouse starts crying bitterly and cries so long that it is finally thin enough to get out of the coconut.
2. Skhal Artahaytutyun 1973, Hayfilm Studio, puppet, 10min. (264m), color.
Scr. A.Ter-Hakobyan, Kh.Avagyan, Dir. A.Mirakyan, Art Dir. A.Sargsyan, Cam. A.Mirakyan, R.Balasanyan, Compos. M.Vardazaryan, Sound M.Hovakimyan, puppets by P.Petrov, M.Manukyan, Edit. S.Gabrielyan, Prod. Manag. S.Martirosyan.

A donkey is the best pupil in the Forest School.
This is the first Armenian puppet film.
3. Qaj Nazar 1980, Hayfilm Studio, cartoon, 20min. (540m), color.
Scr. H.Grigoryan, Dir. R.Sahakyants, Art Dir. Ye.Prorokova, E.Avagyan, Cam. A.Kyurdyan, Compos. D.Azaryan, Sound I.Ordukhanyan, Edit. S.Vatinyan, R.Sahakyants, Scr.Edit. H.Beyleryan, Prod.Manag. H.Shahapuni.

The idler Nazar, who only used to count flies that he had killed, suddenly appears on the throne as a result of the ignorance of people and the guile of the priest.
4. Dzakhord Panose 1980, Hayfilm Studio, cartoon (based on H.Tumanyan’s tale of the same name), 8min. (221m), color.
Scr. R.Sahakyants, L.Sahakyants, Dir. S.Galstyan, Art Dir. A.Bayandur, E.Avagyan, Cam. A.Kyurdyan, Compos. R.Amirkhanyan, Sound K.Kurdiyan, Edit. S.Vatinyan, Scr.Edit. H.Beyleryan, Prod.Manag. V.Mesropyan.

All of the actions of the clumsy Panos backfire.
5. Mkneri Zhogove 1978, Hayfilm Studio, cartoon (based on Khnko Aper’s fable of the same name), 10min. (280m), color.
Scr. L.Budaghyan, Dir. L.Sahakyants, Art Dir. Ye.Prorokova, Cam. A.Kyurdyan, Sound V.Chaparyan, Prod. Manag. S.Petrosyan.

A group of mice meet and decide to hang a bell around the neck of the cat, which would alert them to its arrivals and departures. But it is one thing to make a decision, and quite another to implement it. None of the mice are able to do the deed.
6. Shertavor Vagre 1969, Hayfilm Studio, cartoon, 7min. (186m), color.
Scr. A.Kurlyandsky, A.Khayt, V.Komov, E.Uspensky, Dir./Art Dir. V.Podpomogov, R.P.Babayan, Cam. A.Kyurdyan, Compos. R.Amirkhanyan, Sound Yu.Saya-dyan, Edit. K.Arakelyan, A.Hakobyan, Prod.Manag. L.Movsisyan.

This is a comedy about how tigers in a circus refuse to obey their masters and start to train them themselves.
7. Haylu Heqiate 1982, Hayfilm Studio, cartoon, 10min. (281m), color.
Scr. S.Sarukhanyan, Dir. A.Manaryan, Art Dir. A.Petrov, Cam. A.Kyurdyan, Compos. S.Shakaryan, Sound K.Kurdiyan, Prod.Manag. H.Shahapuni.

A mirror gets into a village in which people don’t know what a mirror is and they don’t even suspect that they see themselves in the mirror.
8. Parvana / Parvana
1970, Hayfilm Studio, cartoon (based on H.Tumanyan’s poem of the same name), 15min. (420m), color.
Scr. A.Hayrapetyan, V.Podpomogov, Dir./Art Dir. V.Podpomogov, Cam. A.Kyurdyan, Compos. R.Amir-khanyan, Sound K.Kurdiyan, Edit. S.Vatinyan, Prod. Manag. L.Movsisyan.

The beautiful princess Parvana sends all of her worshippers to get the non-extinguishable fire for her. None of the young men come back, and the princess mourns their deaths all her life. Parvana Lake is formed out of her tears.
9. Vorsordnere 1977, Hayfilm Studio, cartoon, 10min. (277m), color.
Scr. P.Tyurabyan, Dir./Art Dir. R.Sahakyants, Cam. A.Kyurdyan, Compos. D.Azaryan, Sound V.Chaparyan, songs performed by L.Dolina, A.Abrahamyan, S.Sey-ranyan, L.Sevan, N.Sargsyan, Prod.Manag. S.Petrosyan.

The film is based on Kh.Abovyan’s tales.