There Lived Once a Man
1968, Armenian. Directed by Yuri Yerzinkyan.
Old village doctor Ruben Azaryan is going to operate a sick child, although he feels bad. Perhaps this is the last operation in his life. He remembers his youth, the institute, the student Maro in love with him, the war, the front and the first love - nurse Svetlana, who died during a raid on their hospital. Then marriage to Maro, a difficult job as a village doctor. One day he refuses to have an abortion for one widow. The widow commits suicide from shame. Her death still torments Azaryan. But hundreds of people he saved are also remembered, which means that life was not lived in vain ...
- Runtime
- 1h 7m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Armenian
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- Released
- 4 June 1968
- Original title
- Ապրում էր մի մարդ
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Written by
- Gayane Arakelyan, Arshavir Dabni, Alexander Araksmanyan
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There Lived Once a Man isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 4 June 1968. (Checked 11 November 2026.)
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Who directed There Lived Once a Man?
There Lived Once a Man (1968) was directed by Yuri Yerzinkyan and stars Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Zemfira Tsakhilova, Valentina Egorenkova.