A poor but honest fisherman Pepo opposes a cunning trader Zimzimov, who tries to rob him by trickery refusing to pay a lost bill. Pepo choses prison to paying-off his honour.

Two friends, Shor and Shorshor, both idlers and drunkards, have many comical adventures and get into lot of trouble.

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.

The film is about the establishment of a kolkhoz (collective farm) in a Kurdish village in Soviet Armenia.

A detachment of Bolsheviks impedes the progress of a punitive detachment through the gorge and prevents it from suppressing a revolt.

The Armenian national hero, David Bek, leads a major Armenian uprising against Safavid Persia in the Syunik region in the 18th century.

The film tells us about the development of the cotton industry in Armenia.

Patriotic film from 1941 of Armenian men being called up to fight for the Red Army