David Safarian

David Safarian

Known for

Directing

Birthplace

Yerevan, Armenia

Biography

David Safarian was born in Yerevan in 1952. He graduated from Fine Arts and Drama Academy in Yerevan in 1975. From 1972 to 1978 worked as an actor at the State TV Theatre in Yerevan, and as an assistant director and director at Armenian Documentary Film Studio. He graduated from Film Academy - VGIK in Moscow in 1983. Since then he is a director at "Armenfilm" Studios. In 1991 Safarian had Special Screenings of his films in Cinematheque Francaise in Paris. Since 1991 he is a member of the General Assembly of Cinematheque Francaise. From 1995 to 2001 he shot series of short documentaries about Armenian Culture and History on German TV (ORB/RBB). In 1996 he had a retrospective of films in Cinem...

Best known work

Vocation
Vocation
1975
Blood
Blood
1990
Lost Paradise
Lost Paradise
1991
VGIK: Teachers and Students Talk About the Profession
VGIK: Teachers and Students Talk About the Profession
1979
Hot Country, Cold Winter
Hot Country, Cold Winter
2015
However Odd, But Khokhlova
However Odd, But Khokhlova
1987
My Sky, My Land
My Sky, My Land
1976
The Doctor
The Doctor
1982
The Forest
The Forest
1985
Garnanamouth
Garnanamouth
1987

Filmography

  1. 2017

    Champion

    Director, Writer

  2. 2015

    Hot Country, Cold Winter

    Director, Writer

  3. 2002

    Expectation

    Director, Writer

  4. 2002

    Lullaby

    Director

  5. 1991

  6. 1990

    Warmth-Sickness

    Director, Writer

  7. 1990

  8. 1988

    Devotion

    Director

  9. 1987

    Garnanamouth

    Director, Writer

  10. 1987

  11. 1985

    The Forest

    Director

  12. 1982

    The Doctor

    Director

  13. 1979

  14. 1976

  15. 1975

    Vocation

    Director, Writer

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