Albert Mkrtchyan

Personal Info

Known For Writer

Gender Male

Birthday 1937-02-27

Deathday 2018-02-28 (81 years old)

Place of Birth Leninakan, Armenian SSR, USSR [now Gyumri, Armenia]

Also Known As Альберт Мушегович Мкртчян, Albert Mushegovich Mkrtchyan, Альберт Мкртчян

Albert Mkrtchyan

Biography

Albert Mkrtchyan (Armenian: Ալբերտ Մկրտչյան; February 27, 1937 – February 28, 2018[1]) was an Armenian film director, screenwriter, actor, and recipient of the People's Artist of Armenia award (2003). Albert Mkrtchyan was born in 1937 in Leninakan. In 1960, Albert Mkrtchyan graduated from the Yerevan Fine Arts and Theatre Institute and in 1971, from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in Moscow. From 1960 to 1966, he served as the director of the Armenian TV studio and since 1971, he had been the director of Hayfilm studio. From 1995 to 1999 he was the director of the Gyumri Drama Theater, and since 2000, Mkrtchyan had been the director and artistic director of the Mher Mkrtchyan Artistic Theater. Mkrtchyan had been a lecturer at the Armenian State Pedagogical University after Khachatur Abovyan and Yerevan State Institute of Theater and Cinema.

Known For

Writer

2001
The Merry Bus

as Writer

1989
Breath

as Screenplay

Director

2001
The Merry Bus

as Director

1989
Breath

as Director

1982
1980
The Big Win

as Director

1979
1975
Hard Rock

as Director

Actor

1993
To Remember

as Narrator