Ashot Nadanian

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Gender Male
Industry Sports or Recreation
Occupation Chess player
Location Yerevan, Armenia
Interests chess, cinematography, literature, aphorisms, mineralogy
Favorite Movies Schindler's List (1993), The Decalogue (1989), Casablanca (1942), 12 Angry Men (1957), Ordet (1955), The Godfather (1972), Taste of Cherry (1997), Dancer in the Dark (2000), Rear Window (1954), Dogville (2003), In the Mood for Love (2000), Touchez Pas au Grisbi (1954), Rashomon (1950), Once Upon a Time in America (1984), Viridiana (1961), The Virgin Spring (1960), The Fifth Seal (1976), Duel (1971), The Story of Qiu Ju (1992), The Sting (1973), All About Eve (1950), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Taxi Driver (1976), Belle de Jour (1967), Laura (1944), Vabank (1981), House of Sand and Fog (2003), The Breakfast Club (1985), Oldboy (2003), Rififi (1955), Il Sorpasso (1962), Scenes from a Marriage (1973), The Soft Skin (1964), The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), Tokyo Story (1953), Psycho (1960), City of God (2002), The Kid (1921), Fanny and Alexander (1982), Malena (2000), Hero (2002), Rope (1948), The Lives of Others (2006), Midnight Express (1978), Walkabout (1971), Dial M for Murder (1954), The Old Gun (1975), High and Low (1963), The Green Mile (1999), The Hairdresser's Husband (1990), Kaos (1984), Mother (1991), Woman in the Dunes (1964), Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (1980), There Was a Father (1942), Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974), The Hunt (2012), Burnt by the Sun (1994), Gikor (1982), Jean de Florette (1986), Monsieur Hire (1989), Office Romance (1977), Le chat (1971), Sansho the Bailiff (1954), Leon: The Professional (1994), Mimino (1977), Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), Raging Bull (1980), The Pianist (2002), Witness for the Prosecution (1957), Triumph Over Violence (1965), Nights of Cabiria (1957), Tsotsi (2005), Autumn Sonata (1978), The Mallet (1977), Whiplash (2014), Under the Sand (2000), The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1988), The Straight Story (1999), The Sicilian Clan (1969), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), The Conversation (1974), Wild Strawberries (1957), The Red Snowball Tree (1974), The Naked Island (1960), Not One Less (1999)
Favorite Music Glenn Gould, Grigory Sokolov
Favorite Books Anton Chekhov: short stories, Franz Kafka: Metamorphosis, Mikhail Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita, George Orwell: 1984, Somerset Maugham: short stories, Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The Brothers Karamazov, Leo Tolstoy: The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Nikos Kazantzakis: Zorba the Greek