About Tigran Keosayan
Tigran Edmondovich Keosayan (Armenian: Տիգրան էդմոնդի Քեոսայան, Russian: Тигран Эдмондович Кеосаян; 4 January 1966 – 26 September 2025) was a Russian film director, actor, propagandist and television presenter. He was a winner of film festival prizes including TEFI, Kinotavr, and 2001 Window to Europe Film Festival. == Career == Keosayan directed several Russian films, including Katyka and Shiz (1992), Poor Sasha (1997), The President and His Granddaughter (1999), Silver Lily of the Valley (2000), Hare Over the Abyss (2006), and the propaganda film The Crimean Bridge. Made with Love! (2018), as well as a large number of clips for Mikhail Shufutinsky, Igor Sarukhanov, and Irina Allegrova. He collaborated with Fyodor Bondarchuk, Alexander Zbruev and others. Poor Sasha received a TEFI award as the Best Film of 1998 and Zbruev received the Best Actor prize at the 1998 Kinotavr festival. The President and His Granddaughter was awarded a special jury prize at the 2001 Kinotavr festival. Silver Lily of the Valley was awarded a prize at the 2001 Window to Europe Film Festival. In March 2020, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny alleged that roughly 46 million rubles (nearly $449,000) of state funds earmarked for The Crimean Bridge.
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