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Five years after our comprehensive retrospective of the films of Sergei Parajanov (1924–1990), we are presenting a small selection of the oeuvre of the director, artist, musician and author – this time around with a focus of his seldom-screened last two works and three short films. Born in Tbilisi to Armenian parents, which is where he also grew up, Parajanov is one of the most fascinating figures in 20th century cinema. He first studied singing and choreography in his city of birth and later attended the VGIK film school in Moscow, going on to work in Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan during the Soviet era. His films are imbued with the cultures, traditions, folklores and myths of these countries and captivate due to their singular power of expression, unmistakable originality, complex visual compositions and radically free cinematic form. Celebrated internationally as an outstanding filmmaker from the mid-60s onwards, Parajanov’s artistic daring and the cultural diversity expressed by his films was met with hostility in the Soviet Union. Interventions on the part of the c

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Sergey Iosifovich Parajanov (1924-1990) – film director, screenwriter and artist. Winner of many film awards.

After graduating from VGIK in 1952, Parajanov began working at the movie studio named after Dovzhenko in Kiev.

World fame came to Sergey Parajanov after shooting the cult films “Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors” (1965) and “Color of the Pomegranate” (1968), thanks to which the director is considered one of the founders of “poetic cinema”.

Not being a dissident, Sergei Parajanov, however, openly criticized the government’s cultural policy, opposed censorship and judicial reprisals against Ukrainian intelligentsia.

In December 1973, on the basis of a false denunciation, Parajanov was sentenced to 5 years. After spending 4 years in prison, the director was released in December 1977 thanks to the efforts of the world creative intelligentsia. However, he was forbidden to live in Kiev and make films.

Not having the right to return to Kiev to his apartment, Parajanov was forced to come to his hometown of Tbilisi.

Work in the specialty did not wait for him in Tbilisi. Pa

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Celebrating 100 Years of Soviet Filmmaker Sergei Parajanov

For six decades, Sergei Parajanov’s films have graced the cinema, reaching international acclaim while challenging their audiences. As the art world reflects on the 100 years since his birth, so too can political and social thinkers.

In 1924, Parajanov (or Paradzhanov) was born to Armenian parents in Soviet Tbilisi. Born into an artistic family, Parajanov would attend the prestigious Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow, Russia before working and residing in Ukraine. Director of influential films such as Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1964) and The Color of Pomegranates (1969), Sergei Parajanov was a trailblazer in Soviet cinema because his work reflected a deviation from creative normalcy, the guidelines of Socialist realism.

Socialist realism, a theory developed in 1932, idealized the Soviet lifestyle and supported Marxist propaganda in visual arts. Once he abandoned this style, Parajanov’s work began to gain popularity. Defined by its imaginative qualities and facilitated by h