Maestro Mansurian

The film-portrait of Robert Amirkhanyan is based on Amirkhanyan’s monologue, it presents the maestro’s thoughts on creative, musical, personal and public issues. It consists of an in-frame monologue, live clips, contacts with relatives, colleagues and other people, archive videos and photos. Separate interviews with other professionals, friends and relatives are missing from the film. This gap is filled by live contacts, dialogues and “following scenes”. Maestro introduces himself in different environments, in each of them he talks about his memories and thinks about cultural issues. There are many archival videos in the film, some of which were left in the shadows for some reason, for many people they will be pleasant discoveries.

The documentary is dedicated to the life and work of Gurgen Musheghyan, who was a laureate of the USSR State Prize, Honored Architect of the Republic of Armenia and ACA Academician The film introduces the famous architect from different points of view, revealing his professional-human features, the projects he has implemented on a local-urban scale, his thoughts on the architect’s mission, human-city harmony. The image of the architect-intellectual is completed in the combination of these works and thoughts. The film is a portrait with its composition, consisting of interviews, live episodes, directorial-theatrical shootings, archive materials and graphic images.