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| Popular As | Artavazd Peleshian |
| Occupation | Director |
| Age | 86 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Pisces |
| Born | February 22, 1938 (Leninakan, Armenian SSR, USSR [now Gyumri, Armenia]) |
| Birthday | February 22 |
| Town/City | Leninakan, Armenian SSR, USSR [now Gyumri, Armenia] |
| Nationality | Armenia] |
Artavazd Peleshian’s zodiac sign is Pisces. According to astrologers, Pisces are very friendly, so they often find themselves in a company of very different people. Pisces are selfless, they are always willing to help others, without hoping to get anything back. Pisces is a Water sign and as such this zodiac sign is characterized by empathy and expressed emotional capacity.
Artavazd Peleshian was born in the Year of the Tiger. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Tiger are authoritative, self-possessed, have strong leadership qualities, are charming, ambitious, courageous, warm-hearted, highly seductive, moody, intense, and they’re ready to pounce at any time. Compatible with Horse or Dog.
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 (1973) and Andrey Konchalovskiy for Siberiade (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 Four Seasons (1975).
Makes poetic films with careful use of music, various b&w constrasts and speeds of film.
Uses simple allegories to tell stories.
Depicts man-nature relationship and Armenian culture.
