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Filmmaker · Armenia

Hamo Beknazarian

Died in 1965

Hamo Beknazarian was born in Yerevan in 1891 into a merchant family and grew up in Tashkent. A professional wrestler in his youth, under the name Amo Exotic, he became from 1914 a star of Russian silent cinema, with some seventy films, and graduated in 1918 from the Moscow commercial institute. He headed the cinema section of Georgia, helped found the Armenkino studio in Yerevan and directed the first Armenian sound film. Awarded the Stalin Prize in 1941, he died in Moscow on 27 April 1965.

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