He wanted to live up to 89 years, put the border andagreed with God not to celebrate the 90th anniversary. However, everything happened differently. In March 2015, the People's Artist of Armenia Karen Dzhanibekyan was gone. He left at the age of 78.
After a 30-year hiatus, he again returned totheater, and all this thanks to his last wife Liana Antaryan. Without it, he would not have opened the fund of Gurgen Dzhanibekyan and would not have created the theater "Gurjan". Together they looked in one direction - a script writer and an actor.
Karen Gurgenovich was born on July 1, 1937 inYerevan in the family of the director, actor of theater and cinema, People's Artist of the USSR Gurgen Dzhanibekyan. Surrounded with creative people from childhood, Karen grew up restless and, as they say, a hyperactive boy. His father often took him to his theater, and the stage became the second home for the young Dzhanibekyan.
Energy and raged in Karen, and because of this helong could not decide in the choice of profession. At the time when his peers submitted documents to universities, Karen Janibekyan spent time with a cheerful company of friends, girls and often got into trouble. Finally, having recruited mind-intelligence, Janibekyan Jr. entered the Yerevan Theater and Art Institute.
The talent and efficiency of the young man did their job.
The Armenian actor Dzhanibekyan for his life starred in more than fifty paintings, here is a partial list of films with his participation:
For him it does not matter what genre the film is, KarenJanibekyan played in the detective, in drama, in mystical cinema, in fantasy, in melodrama. He believably conveyed the character of the hero, regardless of the historical era. Gallant knights and modern men in his execution were irresistible.
In the theater, he served with his father, and this is the first timethey played together in the production "Before sunset" on the play of the German playwright Gerhard Gaumpmann. The father was played by the seventy-year-old secret adviser Matthias Klausen, and the role of the servant of Winter was performed by the thirty-year-old Karen Janibekyan.
The image of the servant Janibekyan created in his own way.It was a proud, thoughtful, self-conscious sphinx, compelled to address the master with the words: "Your Majesty" or "To you have come." At the artistic council, Gurgen Dzhanibekyan was told that his son had beaten his father, and this was a great joy for his father.
Once upon a request from Janibekyan Jr. helphe became director of the cinema, his father responded with a sharp refusal, saying that the only testament left to his son was to live in the theater and die in the theater and that his father always lived in his heart.
Since then, the Armenian actor did so - he lived in the theater, worked in the theater, and his father lived in it.
Once the actor said that he would play any role,even the smallest, and make it memorable. The secret of it is that he experienced all the roles, passed through himself, sometimes to the point that it was difficult to get out of the character's image. In the film, the success of Karen Gurgenovich Dzhanibekyan was explained not only by the talent, but also by the painstakingness to which he was accustomed when working in the theater.
During his life, the actor met and acted withsuch masters of Armenian cinema as Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Khoren Abovyan, Galya Noventz and many others. With the help of expressive eyes and well-defined gestures, Dzhanibekyan conveyed to the viewer the main idea of the film or production.
Ten years Karen Gurgenovich lived as a hermit in Garni, where he had a small house overlooking the gorge. In the farm there was a brazier, a small pool - everything you need for happiness.
He went there insulted at all and for a long timecame to himself, inhaling the smells of nature. From this state his last wife Liana Antaryan brought out. The scriptwriter and playwright Liana Antharyan vowed that she would write about the life of her father, who died.
A ready-made script entitled "In the mountains there islife "she brought to Armenia and was looking for the main performer for the role of father. Karen Gurgenovich externally and internally was very suitable for this role and with a sinking heart she expressed to him her proposal. The actor decided not to give up and reassured the woman, and after reading the script, I realized that it was written about him. So two creative people met.
Liana Antaryan became his last guardian angel. The actor woke up with his former energy, in a short time they created a new theater and opened a fund in honor of Karen Gurgenovich's father.
To the correspondent's question, what does he think is the highestaward in life, Karen Gurgenovich Dzhanibekyan replied that this is his family, five sons, one daughter and grandchildren, among whom there is one with the name Karen Gurgenovich Dzhanibekyan.
