Biography
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 1959–1961. He studied directing at the Yerevan State Institute of Theatre and Cinematography and film directing at the Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University, graduating in 1969. Since 1970, he has worked at the Dovzhenko Film Studios in Kiev. Balayan calls himself a student of Sergei Parajanov. He was nominated and won several international prizes. He is well-known for his literary adaptations; authors whom Balayan has adapted for the screen are Anton Chekhov (Kashtanka, 1975; The Kiss, 1983, TV), Ivan Turgenev (The Lone Wolf, 1977; First Love, 1995), and Nikolai Leskov (Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, 1989). His film Flights in Dreams and Reality (1982), a drama about depression and a midlife crisis, is one of his most well-known works. Oleg Yankovsk…
Directed
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Flights in Dreams and in Reality (1983) — Director
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The Night Is Bright (2004) — Director
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Guard Me, My Talisman (1986) — Director
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The Kiss (1983) — Director
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Birds of Paradise (2008) — Director
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Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (1989) — Director
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The Spy (1987) — Director
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Romashkin Effect (1973) — Director
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Lone Wolf (1977) — Director
- Two Moons, Three Suns (1998) — Director
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Kashtanka (1975) — Director
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The First Love (1995) — Director
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We Are Here. We Are Close (2021) — Director
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Thief (1969) — Director
- A Night at Paradjanov's Museum (1998) — Director
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Palm Sunday (1969) — Director
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1992) — Director
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The One Who Fled Death (1968) — Director
