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Armenian film director Henrik Margarian dies in Yerevan

Panorama, Armenia
July 6 2017

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.

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS
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