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Artavazd Peleshian

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Directed movies: 9Directed series: 0All crew credits: 13

TMDB ID: 1166966

IMDb ID: nm0670784

Known for: Directing

Born: February 22, 1938

Age: 87

Place of birth: Leninakan, Armenian SSR, USSR

Gender: Male

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Career span: 1964 - 2024

Years active: 61

Average TMDB rating: 6.26

Wikidata: Q706217

Also known as

Артур Пелешян • Артавазд Пелешян • Arthur Peleshyan • Artavazd Pelechian • Artawasd Peleschjan • Artavazd Pelešjan • Artavash Pelesjan

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Biography

Creator of the "distange montage," Artavazd Peleshian, one of the key Soviet documentarians, removed the boundaries of feature and documentary films, editing both sequences as a real poetical unity. His "distange montage" was a new step in the development of film editing. Even his student works (The Earth of the People 1966 and the Beginning 1967) shot at VGIK, the oldest film school in Moscow, Russia, were awarded numerous prizes and he gained recognition among filmmakers. Alongside his very successful solo career, Peleshian was invited to direct archive footage by such masters as Lev Kulidzhanov for Zvyozdnaya minuta (1972) and Andrey Konchalovskiy for Siberiada (1979). Mikhail Vartanov directed Osennyaya pastoral (1971) from Peleshian's screenplay. Artavazd Peleshian is the author of a range of theoretical works, including his 1988 book "Moyo kino" ("My Cinema"). Some of the most important works of Armenia's documentary cinema include Sergei Parajanov's Hakob Hovnatanyan (1967), Mikhail Vartanov's Parajanov: The Last Spring (1992) and Artavazd Peleshian's Vremena goda (1975).

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