Albert Mkrtchyan
Writing
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.
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To Remember
Vazgen, Sako, Suren and Aram are taxi drivers and close friends. When Aram fell in hopeless love with Karine, other three decide to help their friend.
The Men
The members of an amateur theater group share the losses and sorrows of war with Armenian provincial town's inhabitants.
The Song of the Old Days
This is a story about the fate of a broken family, about the uncertainty of Ruben, who left his family, about attempts to return father, and about a series of funny, but also sad events that bring this dead-end story to a conclusion.
The Tango of Our Childhood
An industrial plant pollutes Lake Sevan with discharges. The public demands to close harmful production. The responsible worker, who is in charge of the plant, understands the requirements of environmentalists, but does not dare to conflict with the management.
Breath
Life in Gyumri during the Karabakh war is full of hope and disappointment. Men work for their living, women wait for the return of their husbands and sons, efforts are topped by coming victory.
The Dawn of the Sad Street
The descendants of refugees from Western Armenia are building a new village in a stone valley. They have different destinies, but they have united with one goal - to grow a beautiful garden on a rocky barren land.
Stone Valley
A crane operator wins a car in a lottery and his life immediately encounters various trials and tribulations.
The Big Win
Focuses on a woman and child after the 1988 earthquake that rocked the Soviet state of Armenia. They find themselves listening to telephone wires and call it music. They became close and the little boy decides that he has found the basis for the making of his new family. The woman then adopts him, however, he believes that they family needs a father as well.
The Merry Bus
Follows the people who came to build the Vorotan hydroelectric power station and reservoir.
Hard Rock
Armen Davtyan, the head of a large enterprise, decides at the age of 40 to leave his job and move on to a more peaceful one. However, a chance encounter with a childhood friend changes his mind...