Russian-Armenian filmmaker’s work wins Golden Eagle award

A movie by a Russian-Armenian director has won the Golden Eagle award in Russia.

Entitled “On Love”, Anna Melikyan’s work was named the best film of 2015, Meduza.io reports.

The award event was held at the film studio Mosfilm on January 29.

Stanislav Govorukhin was named the best director for his “End of Magnificent Period”.

The Best Actress title went to Yulia Persild who starred in the movie, “Battle for Sevastopol”. Fyodr Bondarchik, who played in the “Ghost”, was named the Best Actor.

“Yekaterina”, a 10-episode movie telling about Catherine the Great, the longest ruling female empress of Russia (1762-1796), won the Year’s Best Film Series title. Renowned director Nikita Mikhalkov won a prize for “Contribution to the World Cinematography.”

“On Love” was premiered in Moscow in December. In a speech at the event back then, the Armenian director said that the movie’s motives later served for launching a dating website, adding that 50 couples who found each other thanks to the online platform then had a chance to meet for the first at the premiere.