Cinema
Hello, That's Me!
Բարև, ես եմ
Frunze Dovlatyan · 1966
Synopsis
In 1942, two friends, gifted physicists, continue work that the country judges vital while the war rages, and Lyusya, the woman Artyom Manvelian loves, is killed at the front. The years pass. Artyom has become a famous scientist, who has founded a research laboratory on Mount Aragats, but he faithfully keeps the memory of the war, of his friends and of the lost love, and the bitterness of the loss grows in him with time.
Context
The first film that Dovlatyan directed alone, after three films co-directed in Moscow with Lev Mirsky, it was shot in 1965 at Armenfilm, in black and white and widescreen, from a screenplay by Arnold Aghababov that draws in part on the biography of the physicist Artem Alikhanian. Albert Yavuryan signed the cinematography, Martin Vartazaryan the music. Armen Dzhigarkhanyan plays Artyom opposite Rolan Bykov and Natalya Fateyeva; Margarita Terekhova and Galia Novents made their screen debuts in it, and the director himself plays a role in it. The premiere took place in Yerevan on 26 March 1966, then in Moscow on 6 June.
Who it is for
Two hours and a quarter, in Armenian and Russian, subtitled. The film is built on the memories of its hero.
Prizes and reception
In competition at Cannes in 1966, the only Armenfilm film to have been; ten million viewers; Armenian State Prize in 1967; revived at Cannes Classics in 2023.