A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Rafael Babayan
Рафаэль Бабаян
Birthplace:
Yerevan, Armenian SSR, USSR
Born:
August 11, 1927
Died:
February 12, 1998
Art Direction:
1955 Golden Bull Calf
1957 Who Does Life Smile At?
1959 Why Does The River Roar?
1969 Saroyan Brothers
1971 Puy-Puy Mouse
1980 A Piece of Sky
1980 The Big Win
1982 The Song of the Old Days
1994 Tavarish
Director:
1955 Golden Bull Calf
1957 Who Does Life Smile At?
1959 Why Does The River Roar?
1969 Saroyan Brothers
1971 Puy-Puy Mouse
1980 A Piece of Sky
1980 The Big Win
1982 The Song of the Old Days
1994 Tavarish
Production Design:
1955 Golden Bull Calf
1957 Who Does Life Smile At?
1959 Why Does The River Roar?
1962 Rings of Fame
1969 Saroyan Brothers
1971 Puy-Puy Mouse
1974 Kamo's Last Feat
1975 The Canyon of Deserted Tales
1980 A Piece of Sky
1980 The Big Win
1982 The Song of the Old Days
1985 The Apple Orchard
1994 Tavarish
Set Designer:
1955 Golden Bull Calf
1957 Who Does Life Smile At?
1959 Why Does The River Roar?
1962 Rings of Fame
1969 Saroyan Brothers
1971 Puy-Puy Mouse
1974 Kamo's Last Feat
1975 The Canyon of Deserted Tales
1980 A Piece of Sky
1980 The Big Win
1982 The Song of the Old Days
1985 The Apple Orchard
1989 Breath
1994 Tavarish
Writer:
1955 Golden Bull Calf
1957 Who Does Life Smile At?
1959 Why Does The River Roar?
1962 Rings of Fame
1969 Saroyan Brothers
1971 Puy-Puy Mouse
1974 Kamo's Last Feat
1975 The Canyon of Deserted Tales
1980 A Piece of Sky
1980 The Big Win
1982 The Song of the Old Days
1985 The Apple Orchard
1989 Breath
1994 Tavarish
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Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.