A Kind Trace

A Kind Trace
Armenian SSR, 1980, 10’
no dialogue

Director: Ruben Gevorgyants
Scriptwriter: Emanvel Manukyan
Cinematographer: Yuri Babakhanyan
Production Company: Yerevan Documentary Films Studio

The film is about a Yerevan oddball who paints on garages and turns their cold rusty tin walls into flowering landscapes.

Ruben Gevorgyants

Born November 30, 1945, in the family of Armenian film director Stephan Kevorkov. From 1962-1964 he was a movie mechanics assistant at Hayfilm studio and a director’s assistant in Armenian television. In 1969, he graduated from the Yerevan Institute of Fine Arts and Theatre’s Faculty of Directing. From 1969-1971, he worked in the Yerevan Studio of Telefilms. Since 1971, he worked in the Armenian Chronicle–Documentary Film Studio (called “Hayk” studio today). In 1968, he made his first documentary Graduates of the Nersessian School, in 1977 – his first feature short The Way Back, and in 1983 – his first feature-length film Fire Sparkling in the Night. Since 1982, he was the artistic director of “Hayfilm” studio’s Creative Association of Documentary Films, and in 1989, he became the chairman of “Hayk” film studio, which was founded on the basis of that Association. From 2004-2017 Gevorgyants was the President of the Armenian Union of Film Professionals. He is a People’s Artist of Armenia. His films have won numerous awards in many international film festivals. Gevorgyants passed away in 2017.