Nerses Hovhannisyan

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Name Nerses Hovhannisyan		Role Film director

Born October 12, 1938 (age 85) ( 1938-10-12 ) Yerevan, Soviet Armenia Occupation Film director, Actor, and Screenwriter Movies Yearning, Strange Games, Meeting at an Exhibition Similar People Yervand Manaryan, Azat Gasparyan, Albert Yavuryan, Frunze Dovlatyan, Leonard Sarkisov

Nerses Hovhannisyan (Armenian: Ներսես Գեդեոնի Հովհաննիսյան; 12 October 1938 – 23 October 2016), was an Armenian film director, actor and screenwriter. He graduated from the Directing Department of Yerevan Fine Arts and Theatre Institute in 1959. From that time on he worked at Armenfilm Studios. In 1966-1967 he was assisting Russian director Yuli Raizman during the shootings of Tvoy sovremennik (1967). Besides directing career, he had occasional acting roles in Armenian films.

Filmography

1968 - A Meeting at an Exhibition, short

1969 - Attention, It Is Raisman Shooting, script, dir., doc.

1969 - Watch Out, an Animal, doc.

1969 - Panos the Clumsy

1971 - Avetik Isahakyan, doc.

1972 - A Meeting with Professor Badalyan, doc.

1973 - An Hour Before the Dawn, co-dir. (dir. E.Karamyan)

1975 - A Bride from the North

1977 - Cooks Arrived for Competition, co-script, dir.

1979 - Live Long (as Benik)

1980 - The Big Win (starring)

1980 - The Flight Starts from the Earth, co-script, dir.

1981 - Business Trip to Sanatorium (as Artyusha)

1982 - The Mechanics of Happiness

1985 - Hosted by the Commander, co-script, co-dir. (along with H.Khachatryan)

1985 - The Last Sunday (as Movses)

1986 - A Lonely Nut-Tree (as Hovsep)

1986 - Strange Games, co-script, dir.

1990 - Nostalgia (as Yenok)

References

Nerses Hovhannisyan Wikipedia

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