Armenian film director Arman Manaryan passes away

Arman Manaryan, a merited Soviet-Armenian artist and film director, has died at age 86, reports the Ministry of Culture.

Born in Tehran, Iran in 1929 and repatriated to Armenia in 1946, Manaryan received musical education in Yerevan, graduating from the Romanos Melikyan State Musical College and later the Yerevan State Conservatory. He later pursued his studies at the USSR Institute of Cinematography in Moscow.

An author of numerous Armenian feature films, Manaryan was also known as a script writer. He also created many popular cartoons, including “A Tale about the Mirror” (1984), “The Ignorant” (1995) and “The Daredevils of Sassun” (2001-2010).