Albert Mkrtchyan

from Leninakan, Armenian SSR, USSR [now Gyumri, Armenia]

Artwork for The MenImage of 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.

Timeline

2008Aged 71

  • Poster for The Dawn of the Sad Street

    Writer

2001Aged 64

  • Poster for The Merry Bus

    Writer

1989Aged 52

  • Poster for Breath

    Screenplay

1984Aged 47

  • Poster for The Tango of Our Childhood

    Writer

1982Aged 45

  • Poster for The Song of the Old Days

    Writer

1980Aged 43

  • Poster for The Big Win

    Director

1979Aged 42

  • Poster for The Good Half of Life

    Director

1977Aged 40

1975Aged 38

  • Poster for Hard Rock

    Director

1973Aged 36

  • Poster for The Men

    (Unknown)