Record holder of national cinema Armen Dzhigarkhanyan celebrates anniversary

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

The record holder of the national cinema and just a brutal man Armen Dzhigarkhanyan celebrates his 75th anniversary. Today, October 3, the artist accepts numerous congratulations, but prefers to celebrate the holiday with close friends. The official celebration will take place a week later - on October 10, the Moscow Drama Theater under the leadership of Armen Borisovich will celebrate at once a triple anniversary: the 75th anniversary of Dzhigarkhanyan, the 55th anniversary of his creative activity, as well as the 15th anniversary of the theater, which he created and which he has been leading all these years.

Dzhigarkhanyan made his film debut in 1960 in the role of Hakob in the film "Collapse", but he became famous for the debut film "Hello, it's me!" Directed by Frunze Dovlatyan. film studio "Armenfilm", where Dzhigarkhanyan played a young talented scientist.

Armen Borisovich has a rare gift - to be great in any role. By his own reckoning, he has played over 300 roles on screen, beating prolific Western counterparts such as Marlon Brando and Alain Delon.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev congratulated People's Artist of the USSR Armen Dzhigarkhanyan on his 75th birthday and awarded him the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree, the Kremlin press service reported, RIA Novosti reported.

Therefore, it is not surprising that Dzhigarkhanyan is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the most filmed Russian actor. He played diverse roles in films by the best Soviet and Russian directors, in films of various genres, in comedy and adventure films, in dramas and musical films, and also worked a lot on cartoons dubbing.

In the late 1990s, Armen Borisovich decided to create a theater from his students at VGIK. This is how the Moscow Drama Theater appeared under the leadership of Armen Dzhigarkhanyan: "I am not the director of this theater. They call me an art manager, and this expresses the state of affairs more accurately. And our director is Vladimir Yachmenev, a student of Mark Zakharov. He is familiar with theatrical studio style, he is young, so it does not take up energy. I work on the saved fuel."

“Soon I’m 75 years old,” the celebrity remarked shortly before the anniversary. “This means that I have lived a great life, saw a lot of everything that I cannot be surprised with anything. But sometimes I am surprised at myself. Now we are rehearsing the play“Romeo and Juliet ". It would seem that all this should already be clear to me, like the fact that twice two is four. But I fell in love with this play as a boy! Maybe I'm not so old yet?.."