Henrik Malyan

  • Film director
  • screenwriter
NationalityArmenianYears active1951-1988ChildrenNarine MalyanRelativesDavid Malyan (uncle)
Henrik Malyan Theatre (founded in 1980), 18 Vardanants St, Yerevan

Henrik Sureni Malyan (Armenian: Հենրիկ Մալյան, also transliterated Henrik Malian; September 30, 1925 – March 14, 1988) was an Armenian film director and writer.[1]

He was born in Telavi, Georgia. Malyan's uncle was famous actor David Malyan. He studied chess at an early age, along with Tigran Petrosian. From 1942 to 1945 he worked as a draftsman and designer at a factory in Tbilisi. In 1951 he graduated from the Yerevan State Institute of Theatre and Cinematography. Between 1951 and 1954, he was a director at various theatres in Armenia. In 1953, he graduated from the Moscow Theatre Institute. From 1954 on he worked with the film studio Armenfilm.[2]

His 1977 film Nahapet (Life Triumphs) is considered to be one of the most important Armenian films to deal with the Armenian genocide.[3] It was exhibited in the 1978 Cannes Film Festival.[4]

In 1980 he founded the Henrik Malyan Theatre-Studio for stage works.[5]

In 1982 he was named a People's Artist of the USSR.[6]

Films

As director unless noted.

  • Guys from the Army Band (1961)
  • Road to the Stage (1963)
  • Mr. Jacques and Others (1966, "The Sham Informer" segment)
  • Triangle (1967)
  • We and Our Mountains (1970)
  • Father (1973)
  • Life Triumphs (Nahapet; 1977, also writer)
  • A Piece of Sky (1980, also writer)
  • Gikor (1982, writer)
  • A Drop of Honey (1984, also writer)
  • White Dreams (1985, writer)
  • Yearning (1990, writer)

Awards

References

  1. ^ Peter Rollberg (2009). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 429–430. ISBN 978-0-8108-6072-8.
  2. ^ "Henrik Malyan". Armenian Association of Film-Critics and Cinema-Journalists. Archived from the original on 2011-07-22. Retrieved 2007-11-13.
  3. ^ "Fokus Armenian". Deutsches Filmmuseum Frankfurt am Main (in German). Archived from the original on 2011-07-18. Retrieved 2007-11-13.
  4. ^ "All the Films - Festival 1978". Festival de Cannes. Retrieved 2007-11-13. [dead link]
  5. ^ "Henrik Malyan Theatre-Studio". High Fest International Performing Arts Festival. Archived from the original on 2011-05-31. Retrieved 2007-11-13.
  6. ^ "Malyan". Encyclopedic dictionary. Retrieved 2007-11-12.

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