Born: 1938-02-22
From: Leninakan, Armenian SSR, USSR
Known For: Directing
Creator of the "distange montage," Artavazd Peleshian, one of the key Soviet documentarians, removed the boundaries of feature and documentary films, editing both sequences as a real poetical unity. His "distange montage" was a new step in the development of film editing. Even his student works (The...