Marfa Ponomarenko

Short film from Sergei Parajanov, a personal view of the director on the spectacular heritage of Niko Pirosmani (1862–1918), a Georgian primitivist painter.

Autumn 1944. Wounded scout returns to his home village only to fight with bandits.

Trofim Bessarab has been working as a house painter for all his life. He is a pensioner now and it seems that he can let himself have a rest. But idleness is not for Trofim. His nature is to be a working man and he looks for the way to apply his irrepressible energy, he possesses despite his age.

하얀 바탕 위에 석류가 놓이고, 칼이 놓이고 그 밑으로 핏빛 액체가 번져간다. 남자의 발이 탐스러운 포도를 짓이기면 글씨가 기록된 석판 위로 흥건한 과육이 흐른다.

앙숙인 두 집안의 이반과 마리치카 부부의 불행한 사랑과 마리치카가 죽고 난 후의 이반의 삶과 결혼에 대한 이야기가 그들의 사랑처럼 험준하지만 아름다운 카르파티아 산지를 배경으로 펼쳐진다. 세르게이 파라자노프는 1970년대에 나타난 이른바 ‘소비에트 누벨바그’를 대표하는 감독 중 한 사람이다. 그는 자신의 조국 조지아의 예술적 전통을 영화에 녹여내려 했지만 당시 소련 당국은 영화의 뚜렷한 민족주의적 색채를 문제 삼아 그의 작품 대부분을 상영금지 시켰으며 감독 또한 수 차례 감옥에 가야 했다.

Set in a new mining town in the Donets Coal Basin, it centres on a clash between the young miners, the political establishment, and a religious cult lead by a devious Pentecostal evangelist infiltrated into the community who tries to make the workers fall under his influence.

A comedy about the trip of Tarapunki and Shtepselya (popular artists of the Soviet stage of the 60s) to a concert in Moscow. The heroes were not lucky: the thirteenth car, in which they were supposed to arrive in the capital, was forgotten to be attached to the train. The merry men go to Moscow on the railroad ties, dragging a wagon ...

Singer Oksana has lost her beloved in the war. Everyone thinks he perished, but actually he was taken prisoner, then ran away, hid, fell into American hands, and… Finally, he returns to his village, and meets Oksana. —Yerevan International Film Festival