Roman Balayan
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- April 15, 1941
- Movies
- 24
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 Kyiv.
Balayan calls himself a student of Sergei Parajanov. He was nominated and won several international prizes.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2023 | Ivan and Marta | self |
| 2015 | Yankovsky | |
| 1998 | Ivan Mykolaichuk. Dedication | self |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2023 | The Song of Flying Leaves | Writer |
| 2021 | We Are Here. We Are Close | Writer, Director |
| 2008 | Birds of Paradise | Director |
| 2004 | The Night Is Bright | Director, Writer |
| 2003 | Summer Rain | Producer |
| 1998 | Two Moons, Three Suns | Director, Writer |
| 1998 | A Night at Paradjanov's Museum | Director |
| 1995 | The First Love | Director, Writer |
| 1992 | The Lady in the Car | Screenplay |
| 1992 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Director |
| 1989 | Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District | Director, Writer |
| 1987 | The Spy | Director, Writer |
| 1986 | Guard Me, My Talisman | Director |
| 1983 | The Kiss | Writer, Director |
| 1983 | Flights in Dreams and in Reality | Director |
| 1977 | Lone Wolf | Director, Writer |
| 1975 | Kashtanka | Director |
| 1973 | Romashkin Effect | Director |
| 1969 | Thief | Director |
| 1969 | Palm Sunday | Director |
| 1968 | The One Who Fled Death | Director |
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