Arman Manaryan ( hy, Արման Մանարյան; December 15, 1929 – February 16, 2016) was an

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ian-born

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n film director. He was the brother of actor

Yervand Manaryan Yervand Manaryan ( hy, Երվանդ Մանարյան; September 20, 1924 – February 19, 2020) was an Iranian-born Armenian actor. Manaryan was born in Arak, Iran in 1924 in a family from Agulis, Nakhichevan. In 1946 his family repatriated to ...

. He repatriated to Soviet Armenia in 1946 and graduated from the

Yerevan State Conservatory Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan ( hy, Երևանի Կոմիտասի անվան պետական կոնսերվատորիա), also known as Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory (YKSC) or Yerevan State Conservatory (YSC), is a state-owned colleg ...

in 1952 and from the Moscow Institute of Cinematography in 1962. Since then he worked with

Armenfilm Armenfilm (russian: Арменфильм; hy, Արմենֆիլմ), also known as Hayfilm ( hy, Հայֆիլմ), is an Armenian film studio located in Yerevan. The studio was founded on 16 April 1923 as a production unit of the Soviet State Cinem ...

. He died in 2016, aged 86.Մահացել է Արման Մանարյանը
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Films

*'' Tjvjik'' (1962) *''Morgan's Relative'' (1970)

References

1929 births People from Arak, Iran Armenian film directors 2016 deaths Iranian people of Armenian descent Place of birth missing Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan alumni Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography alumni Iranian emigrants to the Soviet Union {{Iran-film-bio-stub