A portrait of Albert Mkrtchyan

Albert Mkrtchyan

Directing

Born

February 27, 1937

Place of Birth

Leninakan, Armenian SSR, USSR [now Gyumri, Armenia]

Deceased

February 28, 2018

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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