Agasi Babayan (, 21 December 1921 in Azatavan,

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– November 17, 1995) was an

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director, screenwriter, and actor.Agasi Babayan
IMDb He received the title of Merited Artist of the RSFSR in 1974.

Biography

He studied acting and film direction under Sergei Gerasimov at

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and worked at the Armenfilm for several years.Agasi Babayan at the kino-teatr encyclopedia
(in Russian) In 1952 he moved to work at the Mosnauchfilm studio (a Moscow studio that produced educational movies and TV shows). He is best known for making the original 1961 film version of '' Dersu Uzala'' (later more famously remade by

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), as well as a series of four movies about the lynx Kunak based on the stories by Vitaly Bianki, shot in the

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: ''The Path Towards Uninterested Love'' (1971), ''The Lynx Follows the Path'' (1982), ''The Lynx Returns'' (1986) and ''The Lynx Follows the Trail'' (1994). He also produced a number of documentaries on nature, history and music.

References

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