Henrik Malyan

Henrik Malyan
Plaque of Henrik Malyan on Mashtots Avenue, Yerevan
Born	(1925-09-30)September 30, 1925 Telavi, Georgian SSR
Died	March 14, 1988(1988-03-14) (aged 62) Yerevan, Soviet Armenia
Occupation	Film director screenwriter
Nationality	Armenian
Years active	1951–1988
Children	1
Relatives	David Malyan (uncle)

Henrik Malyan Theatre (founded in 1980), 18 Vardanants St, Yerevan

Henrik Sureni Malyan (Armenian: Հենրիկ Մալյան, also transliterated Henrik Malian; September 30, 1925 – March 14, 1988) was an Armenian film director and writer.[1]

He was born in Telavi, Georgia. Malyan's uncle was the actor David Malyan. He studied chess at an early age, along with Tigran Petrosian. From 1942 to 1945 he worked as a draftsman and designer at a factory in Tbilisi. In 1951 he graduated from the Yerevan State Institute of Theatre and Cinematography. Between 1951 and 1954, he was a director at various theatres in Armenia. In 1953, he graduated from the Moscow Theatre Institute. From 1954 on he worked with the film studio Armenfilm.[2]

His 1977 film Nahapet (Life Triumphs) is considered to be one of the most important Armenian films to deal with the Armenian genocide.[3] It was exhibited in the 1978 Cannes Film Festival.[4]

In 1980 he founded the Henrik Malyan Theatre-Studio for stage works.[5]

In 1982 he was named a People's Artist of the USSR.[6]

Films

As director unless noted.

• Guys from the Army Band (1961)
• Road to the Stage (1963)
• Mr. Jacques and Others (1966, "The Sham Informer" segment)
• Triangle (1967)
• We and Our Mountains (1970)
• Father (1973)
• Life Triumphs (Nahapet; 1977, also writer)
• A Piece of Sky (1980, also writer)
• Gikor (1982, writer)
• A Drop of Honey (1984, also writer)
• White Dreams (1985, writer)
• Yearning (1990, writer)

Awards

• State Prize of the Armenian SSR (1975)
• People's Artist of the Armenian SSR (1977)
• People's Artist of the USSR (1982)

References

1. Peter Rollberg (2009). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 429–430. ISBN 978-0-8108-6072-8.
2. "Henrik Malyan". Armenian Association of Film-Critics and Cinema-Journalists. Archived from the original on 2011-07-22. Retrieved 2007-11-13.
3. "Fokus Armenian". Deutsches Filmmuseum Frankfurt am Main (in German). Archived from the original on 2011-07-18. Retrieved 2007-11-13.
4. "All the Films - Festival 1978". Festival de Cannes. Retrieved 2007-11-13. ^[dead link‍]
5. "Henrik Malyan Theatre-Studio". High Fest International Performing Arts Festival. Archived from the original on 2011-05-31. Retrieved 2007-11-13.
6. "Malyan". Encyclopedic dictionary. Retrieved 2007-11-12.

External links

• "henrikmalyan.am". Archived from the original on 9 March 2011. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
• Henrik Malyan at IMDb
• Henrik Malyan at MUBI