What is Hamo Beknazarian?
'''Hamo Beknazarian''', also known as '''Hamo Bek Nazarov''' (born May 19, 1891 in [[Yerevan]], died April 27, 1965 in [[Moscow]]) was an [[Armenia]]n movie director. His career in cinema started in 1914, when a friend offered him a part in a movie. Between 1914 and 1918, he played about 70 parts, becoming a popular actor in pre-Revolutionary Russian movie. In 1920, instead of going to Armenia as he planned, he went to [[Tbilisi]], where he developed a movie department for Georgian Commissioner's office of Public Education. Many of his movies were filmed in Tbilisi, including ''The Father Murderer'' and ''Lost Treasures''. In 1925, he filmed his first Armenian movie and moved to Armenia. In 1933, he made the first Armenian movie to have sound, ''Pepo''.<ref name=mac/> Beknazarian also made a few documentary movies. == Filmography == * ''Shor and Shorshor'' (1926), scriptwriter, director. A comedy about two friends.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.gaiff.am/en/tribute/2007/shorandshorshor/ |title=Golden Apricot International Film Festival |work=gaiff.am |accessdate=29 November 2010 |archive-date=5 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305013428/http://www.gaiff.am/en/tribute/2007/shorandshorshor/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> * ''Namus'' (1926), Director. This was the first Armenian movie. It was a tragic love story.<ref name=mac>{{Cite web |url=http://malta-armenia.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=13&Itemid=33 |title=Malta-Armenia - Culture |work=malta-armenia.eu |accessdate=29 November 2010 }}{{Dead link|date=June 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> * ''Pepo'' (1935), director * ''Zangezur'' (1938), director * ''David-Bek'' (1943), co-scriptwriter, director. A movie about an 18th-century Armenian hero, David Bek (died 1728) who fought to free Armenia from the Ottoman Empire.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.worldscinema.com/2010/05/amo-bek-nazaryan-david-bek-1944.html |title=Amo Bek-Nazaryan - David Bek (1944)-Cinema of the World |work=worldscinema.com |acces