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Frunze Vaghinaki Dovlatyan (Armenian: Ֆրունզե Վաղինակի Դովլաթյան; 26 May 1927 — 30 August 1997) was an Armenian film director, screenwriter and actor.

Frunze Dovlatyan was born in Gavar, Soviet Armenia, brother of Vram Dovlatyan. Before becoming a director, he was a theater actor. From 1941 he acted in Armenian provincial theaters, and then at the Gabriel Sundukyan Drama Theater in Yerevan, where he was awarded the Stalin Prize for his role as Hrayr in the play "Ays astghere merne en" ("These Stars Are Ours"). In 1959 he graduated from the directing faculty of the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow, where he studied under Sergei Gerasimov. His most famous film is "Barev, yes em" ("Hello, It's Me!", 1967), which received the State Prize of the Armenian SSR. In the 1980s Dovlatyan headed the state film studio Armenfilm. In 1983 he was awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR. He died in Yerevan at the age of 70. He is buried in the Tokhmakh Cemetery in Yerevan.

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    Full name - Dovlatyan Frunze Vaginakovich.

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    Graduated from the theater studio at the G. Sundukyan Armenian Drama Theater (1947, Yerevan), and from the directing department of VGIK (1959, workshop of S.A. Gerasimov and T.F. Makarova).

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    Honored Art Worker of the Armenian SSR (1966), People's Artist of the USSR (1983).

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