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Filmmaker · Armenia

Artavazd Peleshian

Artavazd Peleshian was born in 1938 in Leninakan, today Gyumri, and grew up in Kirovakan, where he was a worker, then an engineer, in a machine-tool factory. From 1963 to 1968, he studied directing at the Moscow film institute, in the workshop of Leonid Kristi, and his student films won awards. A theorist of a method of editing which he set out in a book published in 1988, he taught at several film schools, including those of Prague and Paris. People's Artist of Armenia in 2004, he lives between Moscow and Yerevan and presented another film as recently as 2020.

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