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name: "Bagrat Oganesyan"
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born: "13 August 1929"
died: "6 April 1990"
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average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-21T03:34:16.680042+00:00"
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# Bagrat Oganesyan

Director. Born 13 August 1929 in Baku. Died 6 April 1990.

## Details

- **Born:** 13 August 1929, Baku
- **Died:** 6 April 1990
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20511379, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0644484/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1335417

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Solaris*](https://film.one/film/solaris-1972.md) (87)

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## Biography

Bagrat Oganesyan (also credited as Bagrat Hovhannisyan) was an Armenian director, writer and actor. Born in Baku in 1929, he studied at Yerevan State University and the Gorky Institute of World Literature in Moscow before entering cinema in the 1960s through Mosfilm.

He worked as a trainee assistant director on Andrei Tarkovsky’s *Andrei Rublev* (1966) and as script editor on *The Color of Pomegranates* (1969). Tarkovsky later cast him as Professor Tarkhe in *Solaris* (1972) and served as creative adviser on Oganesyan’s debut feature *Sour Grape* (1974). Oganesyan directed further films at Armenfilm, including *Autumn Sun* (1977) and *Master* (1983).

He died in Yerevan in 1990.

*Sources: imdb.com, klassiki.online, armmuseum.ru.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Solaris* (1972), Fi1m 87, as Professor Tarkhe — [page](https://film.one/film/solaris-1972.md)

## Complete filmography (10)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *And Everything Will Be Repeated…* (1989), Director, Writer
- *Master* (1983), Director
- *Autumn Sun* (1977), Director
- *My Heart Is in the Highlands* (1976), Writer
- *Sour Grapes* (1974), Director
- *Solaris* (1972), as Professor Tarkhe — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/solaris-1972.md)
- *Honor of the Poor* (1971), Director of Photography
- *The Color of Pomegranates* (1969), Script Editor
- *King Chakh-Chakh* (1969), Director
- *Andrei Rublev* (1966), First Assistant Director Trainee

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