Galya Novents

Galya Novents

Galya Novents (Armenian: Գալյա Նովենց; 1 July 1937 – 22 July 2012) was a Soviet and Armenian stage and film actress, one of the most prominent Armenian actresses of the 20th century. Galya Novents was born on 1 July 1937 in Yerevan. In 1958, she graduated from Yerevan Institute of Fine Arts and Theatre.

The 42nd Venice International Film Festival gave her a special mention for Best Actress, which was not awarded.

In 2007, Novents was awarded the title of People's Artist of the Republic of Armenia.

She died on 22 July 2012 in Los Angeles at the age of seventy-five.

Movies for Galya Novents...

Where Were You, Man of God?
Title: Where Were You, Man of God?
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
Based on Zorayr Khalapyan's novel of the same name, a medical graduate is appointed as a doctor to a village, never losing his human image in spite of Stalinist repression.
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Yearning
Title: Yearning
Character: Sanam
Released: October 1, 1990
Type: Movie
Real life tragic story of Arakel whose anguish towards lost homeland made him cross Soviet-Turkish border during Stalin era.
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Breath
Title: Breath
Character: Gayane
Released: November 13, 1989
Type: Movie
An industrial plant pollutes Lake Sevan with discharges. The public demands to close harmful production. The responsible worker, who is in charge of the plant, understands the requirements of environmentalists, but does not dare to conflict with the management.
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White Dreams
Title: White Dreams
Character: Mariam
Released: February 24, 1985
Type: Movie
Small provincial town at the end of the 19th century. Barber Hakob is a passionate pigeon-admirer with them finding his peace of mind and filling the dullness of provincial life with poetry. Soon he is forced to choose his pigeon loft or his daughter's happiness.
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The Tango of Our Childhood
Title: The Tango of Our Childhood
Character: Siranush
Released: December 3, 1984
Type: Movie
This is a story about the fate of a broken family, about the uncertainty of Ruben, who left his family, about attempts to return father, and about a series of funny, but also sad events that bring this dead-end story to a conclusion.
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Gikor
Title: Gikor
Character: Nani
Released: May 15, 1982
Type: Movie
A village boy meets his tragic fate when he is sent to the city to work for a rich trader.
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The Song of the Old Days
Title: The Song of the Old Days
Character: Oberon's Mother
Released: April 22, 1982
Type: Movie
The members of an amateur theater group share the losses and sorrows of war with Armenian provincial town's inhabitants.
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A Piece of Sky
Title: A Piece of Sky
Character: Hovakim's wife
Released: October 3, 1980
Type: Movie
A man falls in love with and marries a prostitute, then has to defend her against malicious townsfolk.
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Life Triumphs
Title: Life Triumphs
Character: Antaram
Released: January 2, 1977
Type: Movie
Story of a strong-willed man, Nahapet, who lost his family during the 1915 Genocide is an eternal story of resurrection.
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This Green, Red World
Title: This Green, Red World
Released: December 20, 1975
Type: Movie
It is the tragic love story of rustic lovers Dylan and Sona. Sona is married off to a rich fellow villager whom she does not like.
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Sour Grape
Title: Sour Grape
Character: Yelizaveta
Released: August 30, 1974
Type: Movie
Two years after receiving news of his father’s death in WWII a young boy continues to wait for trains from the front. The boy lives with his crippled uncle rather than with his mother, who has remarried and has another child. Then one day the father returns.
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The Spring Heghnar
Title: The Spring Heghnar
Character: Yeranos' Wife
Released: April 17, 1971
Type: Movie
The movie goes back to the beginning of the century. After the death of his unfaithful wife Heghnar, Master Mkrtich builds an unusual spring in her honour. Its water stops flowing as soon as a stranger approaches it. Only Mkrtich, her husband, can drink water from the spring.
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We Are, Our Mountains
Title: We Are, Our Mountains
Character: Bailiff
Released: September 14, 1969
Type: Movie
The tranquility of a remote Armenian mountain community is disrupted when a group of shepherds affected by the pangs of an evening hunger, decide to butcher and barbecue the sheep of another's that have strayed into their herd. An official inquiry by the city police complicates matters, and questions of law, morality and community only seem to lead to further entanglements.
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Hello, It's Me!
Title: Hello, It's Me!
Character: Nazi
Released: March 26, 1966
Type: Movie
Artyom (Armen Dzhigarkhanyan) is a scientist who buries himself in his work after the woman he loves dies during the war. He is informed of his sweetheart's death by a young woman, and soon love blossoms between the lonely doctor and the emerging beauty. This is the big-screen debut of Margarita Terekhova in the popular film that was seen by over 20 million in the USSR.