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Armenia

Filmmaker · Armenia

Dmitri Kesayants

Died in 2001

Dmitri Kesayants was born in Yerevan in June 1931 into a noble family from Kars, which had changed its name from Bagratouni to escape the Bolsheviks. At twelve, he was deported to Siberia with his family and returned only in 1949. After leaving the teacher training college in 1950, he was an actor at the Yerevan youth theatre and studied directing at the Moscow film institute; from 1962 until his death he worked at Armenfilm, where he made eighteen films. He died in Yerevan in 2001.

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