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Armenian filmmaker Aram Shahbazyan’s "Moskvich, My Love” film was named the best live action at the 25th International Slavonic Film Festival Zolotoy Vityaz held in Crimea, Panorama.am learned from the press center of the forum.

The program of the festival featured around 190 films from 20 countries. The jury traditionally chose three winners in each of the six nominations and awarded them with the golden, silver, or bronze statuette as well as diplomas.

To remind, earlier, Armenian-Russian-French co-production "Moskvich, My Love" film was awarded at the 5th Sakhalin international film festival receiving a Grand Prix. The film also was named the best in two nominations of the Golden Apricot Yerevan International film festival.

Hamo, an old farmer, lives with his wife in a remote village in the mountains of Armenia. The money their son sends them from Russia just allows them to survive. But Hamo nourishes a dream of acquiring a Moskvitch, the most beautiful car in the world, the one that had promised the Soviet power and that he never had. The Soviet Union is gone, but the dream of Hamo remains. He learns that there is one for sale in a nearby village…

Aram Shahbazyan says the film is a story of a generation, which realizes it has little say in the newly occurred reality.