PERCH ZEYTUNTSIAN: HENRIK MALIAN'S FILMS AND TYPES ARE
COMPANIONS OF ARMENIAN PEOPLE
27-10-2005 12:40:00 | Armenia | Culture
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 27, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. "Henrik
Malian is 80 years old today but he hasn't been with us already
for a long time. Henrik left numerous films and types which have
become eternal companions of our people. Even today, from old
years, his "Yerankyuni" (Triangle) is watched with the same
interest, and the film heros became a legent and time," writer,
dramatist Perch Zeytuntsian said at the October 25 jubilee
evening which took place at the Yerevan "Moscow" cinema.
According to P.Zeytuntsian, Malian came to cinematography
from theater but didn't bring with him anything from there, but
an actor, man. It was the greatest pleasure for him to work with
an actor as a result of what "the humane intonation grew into a
type in Malain's films, and the intonation of "Yerankyuni"
became a collective type of the nation what is a rare event in
the cinematography." Henrik Malian carried out a historic
revolution in the Armenian cinema: his hero was always a man and
again a man.
Malian was the first who arose in the cinema the theme of
the Armenian Genocide by a character: this was Gaspar of the
film "Yerankyuni" with his "Gaspar's swimming."
"It's difficult to forget Malian, especially as a film
creator. He had still a lot to say. He created films for a clean
and normal man, he was a great master of a humane
cinematography," Ruben Gevorgiants, the Chairman of the
Cinematographers' Union of Armenia said.