Sergei Parajanov
Also Known As: Սերգեյ Փարաջանով, სერგო ფარაჯანოვი, Sergey Parajanov, Sergei Paradzhanov, Sergei Paradjanov, Сергей Параджанов, Сергій Параджанов, Сергій Йосипович Параджанов, Serhii Paradzhanov, 세르게이 파라자노프
Biography: Sergei Parajanov (Armenian: Սերգեյ Փարաջանով; Russian: Серге́й Ио́сифович Параджа́нов; Georgian: სერგო ფარაჯანოვი; Ukrainian: Сергій Йо́сипович Параджа́нов; sometimes spelled Paradzhanov or Paradjanov; January 9, 1924 – July 20, 1990) was a Soviet film director and artist of Armenian descent who made significant contributions to Soviet cinematography through Ukrainian, Georgian, and Armenian cinema. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sergei Parajanov, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Tiflis, Georgian SSR, Transcaucasian SFSR, USSR
Birthday: January 09, 1924
Deathday: June 21, 1990
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Gender: Male
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Paradjanov: A Requiem
Overview: An absorbing portrait of one of the most colorful and revered figures in world cinema, 'Paradjanov: A Requiem' offers an affectionate and insightful look at the tumultuous career of the late Sergei Paradjanov; artist, dissident, romantic and iconoclast.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-01
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Parajanov. A Ticket to Eternity
Overview: Documentary about the life of Sergei Parajanov, a prominent Soviet-era filmmaker who was active in Ukraine, Georgia and Armenia and was persecuted by the communist government for his views on the pretext of his homosexuality, which was a crime in the USSR. The centerpiece of this documentary is Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, a 1965 movie directed by Parajanov, that awakened the Ukrainian national consciousness which had been suppressed by decades of Soviet rule.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2018-03-28
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Islands
Overview: A bunch of stories, portraits and images about people of amazing destinies, including Parajanov and Tarkovsky, merging into a non-traditional and polemic image of Armenia.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: hy
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Paradzhanov: Christ score in C major
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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The Last Days of Humanity
Overview: The panorama of human affairs encounters the “man with a movie camera”. His playground has no boundaries, his curiosity no limits. Characters, situations and places pitch camp in the life of a humanity that is at once the viewer and the thing viewed. But what are the last days of this humanity? Have they already passed? Are they now or still to come?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2023-05-08
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MIGNOR
Overview: Showing Sergei Parajanov at the end of his life, the film depicts the suffering of a genius against the backdrop of general anxiety and carelessness.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Paradjanov Libéré
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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I am Sergei Parajanov!
Overview: Documentary made and dedicated to Sergei Parajanov shortly after his death, featuring archive photographs, his collages, and clips from several of his films.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1990-07-29
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Sergei Parajanov, The Exile
Overview: Sergei Paradjanov, the great Soviet filmmaker of Armenian origin who was born and grew up in Tbilisi, Georgia, studied film in Moscow and worked for many years in Ukraine, talks on camera to Fotos Lamprinos about his life, his films, and events in the USSR under Gorbachev’s Perestroika, a few short months before he died and while the state of his health was already deteriorating. The film includes rare footage of the massacre of Georgian civilians by the Soviet Army in April 1989 and unpublished material from the Ukrainian prison in which Paradjanov served his sentence.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2009-03-15
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I Died in Childhood...
Overview: Film devoted to director Sergei Parajanov. The film is designed as a confession of the director. There are pictures of various episodes of his life, while shooting, at his home, in prison... The commentary comes in the form of a monologue consisting of excerpts from letters, notes and scripts of his unfinished film The Confession.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2004-07-01
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A Dangerously Free Man
Overview: Roman Shyrman's documentary details the life and work of Sergei Paradjanov, who was no less vibrant and extravagant in everyday life than in his films. His personal life was itself a piece of art. This film is a tragicomic story about this great improviser and fantasist.
Genres: Documentary Animation
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Paradjanov
Overview: “Drawing on archival footage, fragments of interviews, and scenes from his films, this newly constructed portrait of Sergey Paradjanov was composed by the highly accomplished Armenian director Don Askarian (Komitas, Avetik). According to the director's synopsis: "The year is 1989. The place is the film festival in Rotterdam. Farewell at the Hilton Hotel. And Paradjanov says, ‘Help me make Confession’. I answer, ‘As a child of two fathers, the film will be born a bastard’."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1998-10-27
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Cinématon
Overview: Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 minutes and 25 seconds long, of various celebrities, artists, journalists and friends of the director, each doing whatever they want for the allotted time. Subjects of the film include directors Barbet Schroeder, Nagisa Oshima, Volker Schlöndorff, Ken Loach, Benjamin Cuq, Youssef Chahine, Wim Wenders, Joseph Losey, Jean-Luc Godard, Samuel Fuller and Terry Gilliam, chess grandmaster Joël Lautier, and actors Roberto Benigni, Stéphane Audran, Julie Delpy and Lesley Chatterley. Gilliam is featured eating a 100-franc note, while Fuller smokes a cigar. Courant's favourite subject was a 7-month-old baby. The film was screened in its then-entirety in Avignon in November 2009 and was screened in Redondo Beach, CA on April 9, 2010.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-12-20
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Sergei Parajanov: The Rebel
Overview: This documentary is not a straightforward portrait of Armenian film director Sergei Paradjanov's life, but rather a fluid celebration of his talent and creativity. Focusing on the collages he produced during his years in prison, and featuring interviews with the director himself, Cazals' film demonstrates the scope of Paradjanov's artistic vision, lovingly commemorating this rebel of art cinema.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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The Color of Armenian Land
Overview: In his wordless debut film, Mikhail Vartanov presents the ancient and modern art of Armenia through the post-impressionist painter Martiros Saryan’s silent commentary of gestures. Biblical landscapes, the ruins of temples, frescos, cross-stones, contemporary sculptures of Tchakmakchian (Chakmakchyan), the first appearance on film of iconic modernist painter Minas and his paintings, as well as the world famous behind-the-scenes episodes of Sergei Parajanov’s landmark "The Color of Pomegranates (Sayat Nova)." The film had its first public screening at one of the world’s largest and prestigious cinematic events, the Busan International Film Festival, 43 years after it was made.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1969-10-01
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Solitude perdue
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-01-19
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Parajanov: The Last Spring
Overview: Made in wartime and edited in candlelight, Vartanov's rarely-seen masterpiece tells about his friendship with the genius Parajanov who was imprisoned by KGB "at the height of his fame ". Vartanov resurrects the riveting scenes from his banned 1969 film The Color of Armenian Land, where Paradjanov concocts the chef-d'oeuvre The Color of Pomegranates - widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time - then reveals the shocking request Parajanov sent him in unpublished 1974 letters from Ukrainian prisons. Vartanov's camera documents Parajanov's staggering last day at work in 1990 during the making of the unfinished Confession - which survives in The Last Spring - as Parajanov comments on this cherished autobiographical film. The foremost achievement of The Last Spring, emphasized by critics, is Vartanov's exquisite wordless montage that "evoked the very soul" of Parajanov and earned the praise of many of cinema's greatest masters, such as Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1992-12-30
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Andrey Tarkovsky & Sergey Paradzhanov: Islands
Overview: The art, destiny, and relationship of two geniuses of world cinema: Andrei Tarkovsky and Sergei Parajanov.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Return to Life
Overview: Documentary short.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: hy
Release Date: 1980-01-02
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Memories of «Sayat Nova»
Overview: A short documentary by Levon Grigoryan about the making of Parajanov's «Sayat-Nova», or «The Colour of Pomegranates».
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: hy
Release Date: 2006-10-15
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Cinématon n°1083: Sergueï Paradjanov
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-11-09
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Sergei Parajanov. A Visit
Overview: In November 1988, director Anatoly Syrykh met with Sergei Parajanov in Tbilisi to make a documentary about him. However, Parajanov was clearly not in the mood to talk about his art. As a compromise, Syrykh offers to talk about the artist and time. The tired, offended director of "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" forbids Syrykh to film him. He agrees only to speak, recalling the most unpleasant moments of his life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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The Isle Paradjanov
Overview: A film written and directed by Andrei Ayrapetov in memory of Sergei Parajanov. It was produced at Hayk Studio in Yerevan (Armenia) in 1995.
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Original Language: hy
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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