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Filmmaker · Armenia

Erazm Karamyan

Died in 1985

Erazm Karamyan, whose real name was Melik-Karamyan, was born in Paris on 15 March 1912. A stage director from 1930 in theatres in western Siberia, then in Moscow, he graduated in 1936 from the drama and directing faculties of the Kharkov institute of music and theatre, then joined the Yerevan studio as an assistant. He served in the army during the war, made documentaries from 1947 to 1954 and then co-directed several fiction films with Stepan Kevorkov, until the end of the sixties. Named People's Artist of the Soviet Union in 1971, he died in Yerevan on 15 June 1985.

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