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Filmmaker · Romania

Ion Șahighian

Died in 1965

Ion Șahighian was born in Bucharest on 16 November 1897, into an Armenian family. Trained in dramatic art at the Bucharest Conservatory, he made his career as a stage director at the National Theatre, of which he was in 1947 the first director according to Lucian Sinigaglia, then at the Army Theatre, which became the Nottara Theatre. He also made films, silent ones in the twenties, then one in 1939. He taught at the Institute of Theatre and Film Art in Bucharest, and died in 1965.

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