Balayan: I did everything to prevent my children from being interested in cinema
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On the YouTube channel “Dmitry Gordon” it turned out interview of actor and director Viktor Poltoratsky with Ukrainian film director, screenwriter and producer Roman Balayan.
In an interview, Balayan said:
about relations with Russian artists who support the president of the aggressor country of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin; about how Alexander Abdulov and Oleg Yankovsky tried to obtain Russian citizenship for Balayan: “I refused”; about new names in Ukrainian cinema; about actress Lyudmila Gurchenko’s audition in a hotel room; about the fate of director Sergei Parajanov: “A month ago, one person warned him: “Seryozha, you will be imprisoned.” He did not believe it, but a month later he was imprisoned. What letters did the KGB write, my dear mother”; about refusal of public positions; about Nagorno-Karabakh and my childhood spent there.
Roman Balayan was born on April 15, 1941. He began his creative activity as an actor at the Stepanakert Theater. Then he entered the directing department of the Yerevan Theater Institute, from where he transferred to the directing department of the Kyiv State Institute of Theater Arts named after Ivan Karpenko-Kary. He graduated from it in 1969.
In 1982 he directed the film “Flying in Dreams and in Reality,” which brought him fame. He directed the television versions of the plays “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”, “Anfisa”, directed the films “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk”, “Two Moons, Three Suns”, “The Night is Bright”, “Birds of Paradise”, “We Are. We Are Nearby” and others.
