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Tribute

Henrik Malyan-85

Piece of Sky, A

Armenia
1980, 92min.

Director: Henrik Malyan, Script: Stepan Alajajyan, Henrik Malyan, Story by: Vahan Totovents (Blue Flowers), Director of Photography: Sergei Israelyan, Prod.Design: Rafael P. Babayan, Composer: Tigran Mansuryan, Sound: Yuri Sayadyan, Editor: Hasmik Melkonyan
Cast: Mher Mkrtchyan, Ashot Adamyan, Sofiko Chiaurelli, Galina Belyaeva, Tigran Voskanyan, Torik Armen Kuyumjyan

Little Torik was a shy and quiet child. Everything was all right until he grew up into adulthood and married a young woman from a brothel. The society cannot forgive him that. The young man turns into a resolute and courageous defendant of his own happiness.

Production Company

Hayfilm Studio

Malyan, Henrik

Henrik Malyan (1925, Telavi, Georgia – 1988, Yerevan)
1942-45, draftsman, contractor’s steward at a plant in Tbilisi. 1951, graduated from the Directing Department of Theatre Institute in Yerevan. 1953, graduated from the Higher Directing Courses at Moscow Theatre Institute. 1951-54, director of different Armenian theatres. From 1954 to 1988, worked at Hayfilm Studio.

Filmography
Fellows of a Music Group (Co-dir. H. Margaryan, 1960), Road to the Stage (Co-dir. L. Isahakyan, 1963), Monsieur Jacques and Others (segment A Sham Informer; 1964), Triangle (1967); We and Our Mountains (1969), Hayrik (1972), Nahapet (1977), A Piece of Sky (1980), A Drop of Honey (1982).

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