Suren Babayan

Suren Babayan (b. 1950, Yerevan, Armenia), screenwriter and director, graduated in theater direction from the Yerevan State Institute of Cinema and Theater, and in film direction from the Higher Courses at the Moscow State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK), Nikita Mikhalkov's master class. He sparked interest with his debut The Cry of a Peacock (Siramargi tchiche, 1982), co-directed by Mikael Dovlatyan. In 1987 he debuted on his own with the fantasy film The Thirteenth Disciple, based on Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles. Other films: the feature drama Blood (Aryun, 1990), the short P.S. (1993), the surreal story Crazy Angel (Khent hreshtak, 2000), based on the novel Barabbas by Swedish Nobel Prize winner Pär Lagerkvist, and the drama Jeano (2004). In 1990 he wrote the script for Dovlatyan's crime mystery Facing the Wall (Demqov depi pate, 1990).

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