SYNOPSIS
An Armenian soldier during WWII is sent with an unusual assighnment to bring an elephant from Germany to the Yerevan Zoo.
CAST & CREW
Dmitry Kesayants
Director
Script
Eduard Akopov,Dmitry Kesayants
Director of Photography
Levon Atoyants
Production designer
Mikayel Antonyan
Music by
Yuri arutyunyan
Sound
Eduard Vanunts
Edit
Valentina Haykazyan
Cast
Mher Mkrtchyan,L. Shtrimaytite,V. Rindin,Hovik Vanyan
Production company(ies)
Hayfilm Studio
Dmitry Kesayants
(1931, Yerevan – 2001, Yerevan) Worked in a farm (1945 - 1949). In 1950 he graduated from the Yerevan Pedagogical College, worked as an actor at the Theatre for Young Audience. In 1963 graduated from the Directing Department of All-Soviet State Institute of Cinema (VGIK), Kozintsev's master class. Since 1963 worked for Hayfilm Studio.
Filmography
The Master and the Servant (1962), The Yerevan Nuclear Center (1964), Avdo's Car (1966), Good Morning (1967), My Native Town (1968), Confession in Love (1969), King Chakh-Chakh (1969), A Shot on the Border (1970), Song of Eternity (1972), A Man from “Olympus” (1974), Inspiration (1975), The Soldier and the Elephant (1977), The March of Our Forefathers (1980), The Fire (1983), The Expected Rider (1984), Illusion (1987), The Damned (1991), Disaster (1993), Victory Day (1995)
