Rector of Yerevan Theater and Cinema Institute dies at 53

Armen Mazmanyan, an acclaimed Armenian film director and the rector of the Yerevan State Institute of Theater and Cinema, died at the Saint Gregory the Illuminator Medical Center, on Wednesday.

He was aged 53.

Mazmanyan was born on February 15, 1960. A graduate of the Theater and Cinema Institute, he was honored with the Fridtjof Nansen medal and several Armenian state awards.