- Haig Garabet Acterian, the eldest of brothers Acterian, is a famous film director from the interwar period. Brother of Arsavir Acterian and Jeni Acterian, he was a colleague of Mircea Eliade, at the Spiru Haret High School from Bucharest.
Mircea Eliade, the author of the novel named The shortsighted adolescent, an important book in the Romanian literature, and Haig Garabet Acterian is one of the characters in it.
He was married with one of the greatest drama actress from the National Theatre from Bucharest, Marietta Sadova.
In the begining, though he was initially tempted to learn for admission to the Conservatory to study music, he goes for the courses of the Dramatic Art Conservatory at the Lucia Sturdza Bulandra class, which he graduates with honors.
The graduation exam he had was a role in the Master Manole play, directed by Adrian Maniu.
Haig Acterian will then become the first film diplomat director fom Romania, after he graduated a specialization course in Rome, at the Cinecitta studios.
He coresponded with Edward Gordon Craig, a theorist and director of the modernist theatre from England, also considred the father of the modernist-European theatre.
With his colleagues, Mihail Sebastian and Camil Petrescu, Haig Garabet was one of the most prestigious theatre chroniclers in the interwar period. He is also the author of the first monograph on William Shakespeare in Romanian language.
