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Filmmaker · Armenia

Bagrat Hovhannisyan

Died in 1990

Bagrat Hovhannisyan was born in Baku on 13 August 1929; his family moved to Iran, then returned after the war to settle in Yerevan. A graduate in 1956 of the Romance and Germanic section of Yerevan University, he did doctoral studies at the Institute of Literature in Yerevan and then at the Gorky Institute in Moscow, before turning to cinema: a trainee on a Tarkovsky shoot in 1965 and 1966, whose friend he remained, he moved into directing in 1969 at Armenfilm. Honoured Artist of Armenia in 1987, he died in 1990.

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