Armenia’s ministry of culture reports with great sorrow about the death of film director Henrik Margarian, who passed away on Thursday aged 92.
Henrik Margaryan was born 1925, Leninakan (currently Gyumri) Armenia. In 1951, he graduated from the Directing Department of Yerevan Theatre Institute (Levon Kalantar's master class). In 1950, Henrik Margaryan worked at Armenian Youth Communist Union. Since 1955, he worked at Armenfilm Studio.
Filmography
Yeghishe Charents (1957, doc.), Generation of the Brave (1958, doc.), The Last Farewell (1958, doc.), The Guys of the Music Band (1960, Co-dir.: Henrik Malyan), Four in One (1963, short), Monsieur Jacques and Others (1964, segment “Priest's Promise”), Refugees (1968, short), Heat (1968, short), Shrove-tide (1968, short), The Clown (1969, short), Hard Rock (1974, Co-dir.: Albert Mkrtchyan), The Chairman of the Revolutionary Committee (1977), Blue Lion (1979), Earth and Gold, (1984, Co-dir.: Arman Manaryan), The Pharmacy on the Crossroads (1987).
Margarian received the Honorary Title of People’s Artist of Armenia in 1967.