Very popular Soviet Armenian musical about a talented singer, spoiled by his success.

The film is about the civil war in the Zangezur (Syunik) province of Armenia in the early 1920s. The last Dashnak battalions headed by Sparapet Nzhdeh still opposed both the incursion of Red Army and the local Bolshevik partisans.

Vardan, a victim of misunderstanding, barely avoids becoming an accomplice in a crime. The first film on a contemporary theme from the Hayfilm (Armenkino) film studio about the educational role of the Red Army in shaping the character of conscripts.

Immediately prior to the Russian Revolution, a young shepherd Seydo and his girlfriend Zare struggle for their right to a happy love in a Yazidi Kurdish village in Russian Armenia.

A schoolboy, Karo, gets involved into the struggle between Communists and Dashnaks during the establishment of a Soviet regime in Armenia.

Based on Alexander Shirvanzade's 1885 novel of the same name, the film denounces the despotic rites and customs of Caucasian families. It is widely recognized as the first Armenian feature film.

The movie is about the suppressed revolt of "khaspushes", Persian peasants and craftsmen in 1891.