Roman Balayan

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Roman Balayan

Born April 15, 1941 (age 85)

Roman Gurgenovich Balayan (Armenian: Ռոման Գուրգենի Բալայան, Russian: Рома́н Гурге́нович Балая́н; born 15 April 1941, Nerkin Horatagh, Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast, Soviet Union) is a Ukrainian-Armenian film director. In 1997 Balayan was awarded the title People’s Artist of Ukraine. Balayan worked as an actor in the theater of Stepanakert (located in the Nagorno-Karabakh region) in 1959–196…

Known For

The Lady in the CarThe Lady in the Car · 1992
The Lady in the Car
★ 10.01992
Movie
A young secretary, Helen, must take his boss's car to the garage. On the way she stumbles into unexpected déja vu adventures.
Flights in Dreams and in RealityFlights in Dreams and in Reality · 1983
Flights in Dreams and in Reality
★ 6.51983
MovieDrama
On the eve of his fortieth anniversary Sergei Makarov looks back at his life and learns that he has achieved nothing. He was not able to be happy and to bring happiness to the closest people in his life, neither to his long-suffering wife nor young mistress nor friends nor work... It is about the men who never grew up and could not find themselves in the time of stagnation – gifted, charming, but infantile and lost, they never were able to realize themselves...
YankovskyYankovsky · 2015
Yankovsky
★ 10.02015
MovieDocumentary
This film is not about Oleg Yankovsky in the usual sense: not a biography of a great actor, not a review of roles. And not the sharp facts from his personal life. Although it's all in the film: a dramatic fate, unknown pages of biography. Like any great actor, he possessed a secret - he did not tell both in the movies and in life. But his main gift was not even acting. Yankovsky was talented at making people fall in love with him. I wanted to look at him again and again: that's why they loved him and still love him.
Birds of ParadiseBirds of Paradise · 2008
Birds of Paradise
★ 2.82008
MovieDrama
The events of the film take place in the Soviet Union in the early 1980s. It is forbidden to listen to foreign radio stations, it is not safe to voice one’s opinions in front of strangers. Words of truth are spoken only in private kitchens behind the curtained windows. The KGB tap phones, survey the ‘unreliable’ and consistently step by step destroy all forms of decent. The protagonists challenge the inhumane state machine, putting on stake their very lives and proving that nothing and nobody can stop a person who is on his way to achieve a true freedom.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? · 1992
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1992
MovieDramaTV Movie
A film-play based on the play by Edward Albee (translated by Vitaly Vulf, Igor Kochnov).
The First LoveThe First Love · 1995
The First Love
★ 5.01995
MovieDrama
Based on the story of the same name by I. Turgenev. A story about the romantic feeling of falling in love with a young man for whom everything is for the first time.
Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk DistrictLady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District · 1989
Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District
★ 4.61989
MovieDrama
Katerina Izmailova, a beautiful and uneducated merchant's wife, feels lonely and bored somewhere in the Russian provinces while her older husband is often away. Years go by in her childless marriage, without an outlet for her youthful energy, resulting in constant idleness and frustration. Along comes Sergei, an unscrupulous young worker who is happy to improve his lot by seducing Katerina as he has done with others before. Katerina falls for Sergei, and this love quickly becomes her only reason for living, turning to destructive passion and ultimately to tragedy for many.
Palm SundayPalm Sunday · 1969
Palm Sunday
1969
Movie
Impressionistic short student film set on the title day.

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