The House on the Volcano

1928 DramaHistory 63 minutes Directed by Hamo Bek-Nazaryan

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About The House on the Volcano

An aging drilling foreman looks back on an oil workers' strike in Baku before the revolution. The story he tells is the crushing of that strike.

Cast & crew

More about The House on the Volcano

The catalog year is 1928 and the director credit is Hamo Bek-Nazaryan. Wikidata spells the name Hamo Beknazarian and lists 63 minutes and 1928. The English Wikipedia title calls it a 1929 film directed by Amo Bek-Nazaryan, and the Commons file is dated 1929.

Themes

  • an oil strike
  • pre-revolutionary Baku
  • a foreman's memory
  • Baku
  • oil workers
  • drilling foreman
  • strike

Look

Aleksandr Galperin photographed the Baku oil-field story.

Notes

  • Hrachia Nersisyan, Tigran Ayvazyan, Tatyana Makhmuryan, Mikayel Garagash, and Alasgar Alakbarov are on the Wikidata cast.
  • Aleksandr Galperin is the cinematographer.
  • The Russian title used on Wikipedia and on the Commons file is Дом на вулкане.

Also available

  • Wikimedia Commons (Дом на вулкане (1929).webm)

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