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Filmmaker · Armenia

Artashes Hay-Artyan

Died in 1978

Artashes Hay-Artyan, born Haroutiounian, was born on 27 October 1899 in the Kars region. He held several jobs before graduating in 1921 from the Armenian drama studio in Yerevan, then studied theatre and cinema in Moscow, where from 1922 to 1935 he was an actor, assistant and director at the Goskino and Soyuzkino studios. He then worked at the Yerevan studio, where in 1956 he brought Shirvanzade's play Pour l'honneur to the screen. He died in Yerevan on 13 April 1978.

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