Moscow cinema

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Moscow cinema in Yerevan

The Moscow Cinema ( Armenian Մոսկվա կինոթատրոն , Moskva kinotatron ) is a cinema complex on Charles Aznavour Square in the historic Shahar district of the Armenian capital Yerevan .

Structure and use

The cinema has four halls: the red hall with a capacity of 491 seats, the blue hall with 350 seats, the small red hall with 49 seats and the gallery with 35 seats. There is also an open-air screen on the east side of the building.

The Moscow Cinema, which is steeped in tradition and popular with the city's population, serves, among other things, as the main venue for the “Golden Apricot” film festival , which has been held annually in Yerevan since 2004. In addition, the cinema regularly hosts a youth film festival, an animation film festival and various film series on foreign films.

history

The cinema opened in 1936 instead of the Peter and Paul Church , which was demolished in 1930 and the remains of which can now be seen in the Yerevan Historical Museum . The building in the Soviet-classical style was designed by the architects Tiran Jerkanjan and Geworg Kotschar and opened on December 12, 1936 with the premiere of the Soviet-Armenian film Pepo . In the 1960s, the cinema was redesigned by architects Geworg Kotschar and Telman Geworgjan, and in 1983 the facade was redesigned with motifs from the classic Soviet films Tschapajew , Pepo , Dawit Bek and The Color of the Pomegranate . The movie theater was privatized in 1999 and reopened in 2000 after extensive renovation work. As part of the celebrations for the tenth anniversary of Armenia's independence, the square in front of the cinema was named after Charles Aznavour in 2001 .

Web links

Commons : Moscow Cinema  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Մեր մասին. (No longer available online.) Մոսկվա կինոթատրոն, Archived from the original on October 5, 2017 ; Retrieved November 14, 2017 (Armenian). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.moscowcinema.com
  2. ^ Marianna Grigoryan: Armenia: Yerevan Architectural Debate Pits Church against Preservationists. (No longer available online.) In: Eurasianet. March 24, 2010, archived from the original on December 22, 2015 ; accessed on November 14, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.eurasianet.org
  3. ↑ Karine Ionesyan: Golden Apricot: Int'l film festival picking up pace in Yerevan. In: ArmeniaNow.com. July 14, 2010, accessed November 14, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Jasmine Dum-Tragut : Armenia: 3000 years of culture between East and West . 8th edition. Trescher, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-89794-385-8 , pp. 136-137 .
  5. ^ Armenians name square in Yerevan after famous French singer. Noyan Tapan news agency, Yerevan, September 24, 2001, accessed November 14, 2017 .

Coordinates: 40 ° 10 ′ 54.2 ″  N , 44 ° 31 ′ 2.3 ″  E