Lev Kulidzhanov

Lev Kulidzhanov
Лев Кулиджанов
Լև Կուլիջանով
Born(1924-03-19)19 March 1924
Tiflis, Transcaucasian SFSR, Soviet Union (present-day Tbilisi, Georgia)
Died17 February 2002(2002-02-17) (aged 77)
Moscow, Russia
Other namesLev Aleksandri Kulijanyan
Occupations
Years active1955–1994

Lev Aleksandrovich Kulidzhanov (19 March 1924  17 February 2002, also Lev Aleksandri Kulijanyan) was a Soviet and Armenian film director, screenwriter and professor at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography. He was the head of the Union of Cinematographers of the USSR (19651986). People's Artist of the USSR (1976). He directed a total of twelve films between 1955 and 1994.