Anatoly Eiramdzhan

Anatoly Nikolaievich Eiramdzhan (sometimes Eiramjan; Russian: Анатолий Николаевич Эйрамджан, Armenian: Անատոլի Նիկողայոսի Էյրամջյան; January 3, 1937 – September 23, 2014) was a Russian-Armenian film director, writer and producer. Author of humorous stories and sketches.

He began his film career in the 1970s as a screenwriter. In 1989 Eiramdzhan began shooting films from his own scripts. In 1992 he founded New Odeon film studio, having become a director, screenwriter and producer of his films. For the way to shoot quickly and cheaply, as well as the presence of dubious humor and sexploitation, he was compared to Ed Wood. At the same time, his achievements include the fact that he made many films in the conditions of the decline of the film industry in Russia in the 90s and gave many film actors the opportunity to work in their specialty.

Biography

His father was Nikolay Nikolaevich Ter-Grigoryan, an accomplished teacher of music and the piano. Eiramdzhan was born in 1937 in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR. Anatoly Eiramdzhan's mother, whose surname was taken by Anatoly, was Arevik Nikitichna Eiramdzhan - the grand daughter of the famous Armenian writer Ghazaros Aghayan (1840–1911).

In 1961 Eiramdzhan graduated from the Azerbaijan Institute of Oil and Chemistry.

In 1972 he completed a three-year program at the Screenplay branch of the High Course of Scriptwriters and Movie Directors (conducted by I. Olshansky). After graduating he began writing movie scripts.

Eiramdzhan was also the author of short comic stories. He was honored as a winner of the prestigious "Golden Calf award" from the "Literary Newspaper" for 1972 - 1973.

In 1989 Eiramdzhan began producing films from his own scripts. The film studio New Odeon was formed in Moscow in 1992 by Eiramdzhan to focus on creating low budget comedies. He also took on the responsibilities of screenwriter, art director and film director. During his career at New Odeon, Eiramdzhan was responsible for the creation of twenty films.

In 1995 the publishing house Author, Inc. of Moscow published Eiramdzhan's first book, titled The Ladies' Man and Other Comedy Films.

Eiramdzhan's films consistently receive very high ratings and have large theatre and TV audiences.

In 2006 the publishing house Golos-Press published his second book, titled From Everyone One Thread.

Since 2003 Eiramdzhan lived and worked in Miami, FL with his wife Oksana and his son Koka (Nikolay).

Eiramdzhan died in Miami, Florida September 23, 2014 in the age 77. The death came from cardiac arrest.[1]

Filmography
as scriptwriter
  • Fellows Villager (1973) - scriptwriter
  • What There is Our Life? - The Film-Almanac «Au-Uu!» (1975) scriptwriter
  • Let's Meet at the Fountain (1976) - scriptwriter
  • If I Would Be the Chief (1980) - scriptwriter
  • Where It Will Get To?! (1981) - scriptwriter
  • It Is Time of Red Apples (1981) - scriptwriter
  • Travel Will Be Pleasant (1982) - scriptwriter
  • Vitya Glushakov - A Friend of the Apaches (1983) - scriptwriter
  • The Most Charming and Attractive (1985) - scriptwriter
  • Where is the Nophelet? (1987) - scriptwriter
as director and scriptwriter
  1. For Fine Ladies! (1989) - director, scriptwriter
  2. The Ladies' Man (1990) - director, scriptwriter
  3. My Seawoman (1990) - director, scriptwriter
  4. Real Man (Short-Footage Film) (1991) - producer, director, scriptwriter.
as producer, director and scriptwriter
  1. New Odeon (1992)
  2. Old Records (1993) (Short-Footage Film)
  3. The Groom from Miami (1994)
  4. The Third is Not Superfluous (1994)
  5. The Impotent Men (1996) (The Award"Gold Demetra", Yalta 1997)
  6. Night Visit (1997)
  7. When We Are Not Strange (1998)
  8. Prima Donna Mary (1998)
  9. The Ultimatum (1999)
  10. The Valentine's Day (2000)
  11. The Agent in the Miniskirt (2000)
  12. The Mistress From Moscow (2001)
  13. Secret Appointment (2001)
  14. We Have Made It ! (2001)
  15. The Son of the Loser (2002)
  16. Easy Kiss (2002)
  17. Arrow of Love (2002)
  18. The Braked Reflex (2004)
  19. To Marry at 24 O'clock (2004)
  20. The Gift of Nature (2005)

Critics

Many critics negatively evaluate Eiramjan's works and their influence on the Russian film industry, noting the low-grade humor and abundance of sexual motives.[2][3][4] For the way to remove fast and cheap it is compared with Ed Wood, this similarity is noted and the Eiramdzhan in an interview: "Many of the actions of this Director are clear to me, as probably few people, I have a lot in common with him and I am offended that he is considered the worst director in America."[5] The name Eiramjan is often used as a common noun to refer to cinema povera, "poor cinema, thrash".[6].

At the same time, the critic Igor Mantsov described the Eiramdzhan as "the most stable, accurate and professional (yea, yea!) cinematographer of the decade" (i.e. 1990s), "a true knight of low-budget cinema", who "on scanty money in a situation of complete collapse of the film industry managed to give out one movie farce after another" and in which "only the lazy person did not spit».[7][8]

gollark: You could also download something like my multicast-based chat program and cheat that way.
gollark: However, as it turns out, they "block internet access" just by denying access to browsers, and you can still use anything else they have for that (which isn't much). Including, say, using Python's urllib to access web things™. Which is quite impractical, but in theory, if I felt cheaty, I could use that to download a less impractical program to browse things.
gollark: Now, they aren't entirely stupid so you get a separate temporary account without your usual files and whatever to work on for the duration.
gollark: Part of them is done on actual computers, as they are slightly modern.
gollark: That reminds me of the excellent security of my school's computer science exams.

References
  1. http://svpressa.ru/culture/news/99057/
  2. "Анатолий Эйрамджан: "Я тот, кто угрожает словом"". Интервью газете «Культура» № 22 (7381). Новый Одеон. June 2003.
  3. Записал Иван Чувиляев (2010-09-23). "Guilty Pleasures. Нечаянные радости". Сеанс.
  4. Павел Орлов (2019-12-07). "Краткая история отечественного кино: от 1953 до 1991". Частный корреспондент.
  5. Илья Мутигуллин (June 2011). "Интервью с Анатолием Эйрамджаном. Часть 1". специальное интервью для сайта «Киномутации».
  6. "Почти прораб". Gazeta.Ru. 2014-09-24.
  7. Игорь Манцов (August 2002). "Бразилия—Аргентина. Про нашу кинокритику". ru:Искусство кино.
  8. Игорь Манцов (2007-12-08). "Игорь Манцов: Одиночество бегуна на длинной дистанции". Взгляд.
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