Roman Balayan

Roman Balayan was born on 15 April 1941 in Nerkin Horatagh, in Nagorno-Karabakh, into an Armenian family, and was an actor at the Stepanakert theatre from 1959 to 1961. He studied directing at the Yerevan theatre institute, then graduated in 1969 from the Karpenko-Kary institute in Kyiv. He joined the Dovzhenko studio in 1970, made his debut as a director there in 1973 and calls himself a pupil of Parajanov; since 1996 he has run his own production company. Named People's Artist of Ukraine in 1997, he received the Dovzhenko Prize in 2024.

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• CinemaFlights in Dreams and RealityПольоти уві сні та наявуRoman Balayan · 1983Cinema