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Artavazd Peleshian (b. 1938)

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

Birthplace:
Leninakan, Armenian SSR, USSR

Born:
February 22, 1938

Biography from TheMovieDB

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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Film Production

Co-Director:
1974  Starlit Minute

Director:
1964  Mountain Vigil
1966  The Land of the People
1967  Beginning
1969  We
1970  Inhabitants
1974  Starlit Minute
1975  The Seasons
1983  Our Century
1984  God in Russia
1992  End
1994  Life
2019  Nature

Editor:
1964  Mountain Vigil
1966  The Land of the People
1967  Beginning
1969  We
1970  Inhabitants
1974  Starlit Minute
1975  The Seasons
1979  Siberiade
1983  Our Century
1984  God in Russia
1992  End
1994  Life
2019  Nature

Writer:
1964  Mountain Vigil
1966  The Land of the People
1967  Beginning
1969  We
1970  Inhabitants
1974  Starlit Minute
1975  The Seasons
1979  Siberiade
1983  Our Century
1984  God in Russia
1992  End
1994  Life
2019  Nature

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