Artavazd Peleshian
Directing · Director · Editor · Writer
Born Feb 22, 1938 · Leninakan, Armenian SSR, USSR
Active 1964–present · Awards: Honored art worker of the Russian Federation, Honored Art Worker of the Armenian SSR, Order of St. Mesrop Mashtots, Order of the Badge of Honour, honorary citizen of Yerevan, médaille du Premier ministre, Armenian SSR State Prize
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.
Filmography
PELECHIAN PROJECT (2026) — DirectorNature (2019) — Editor · DirectorLife (1994) — Director · WriterEnd (1992) — Director · EditorGod in Russia (1984) — DirectorOur Century (1983) — Director · Editor · WriterSiberiade (1979) — EditorThe Seasons (1975) — Director · WriterStarlit Minute (1974) — Co-DirectorInhabitants (1970) — Editor · DirectorWe (1969) — Director · WriterWe Are, Our Mountains (1969) — RevazBeginning (1967) — Director · EditorThe Land of the People (1966) — Director · WriterMountain Vigil (1964) — Editor · Director