Saroyan Brothers (1969) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained

Release, runtime and language

1969 · 102 mins · Armenian

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Starring

Lia Eliava, Frunze Dovlatyan, Khoren Abramyan, I. Aghamyan, Gurgen Janibekyan, Anahit Maschyan

Set in 1920 during the final days of the First Armenian Republic, the Armenian army battles Turkish forces in the west and a Red Army incursion with a Bolshevik mutiny in the northeast. Hayk Saroyan returns from Russia to assume a minor post at the Dashnak command centre, where his brother Gevorg, a steadfast patriot captain, prefers death to exile. As war rages, Hayk suspects Gevorg may be a Bolshevik spy, testing family bonds.