Self
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.
Himself
Made in wartime and edited in candlelight, Mikhail Vartanov's rarely-seen masterpiece tells about his friendship with the genius Sergei Parajanov who was imprisoned by KGB "at the peak of his artistic power". Vartanov takes us back with the scenes from his censored 1969 film The Color of Armenian Land where Paradjanov is at work on his suppressed chef-d'oeuvre The Color of Pomegranates - widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time - and contrasts it with the shocking request Parajanov sent him in unpublished 1974 letters from the Soviet prisons. Vartanov's camera documents Parajanov's striking last day at work in 1990 during the making of the unfinished Confession. A monumental wordless montage - the entire sixth reel - concludes Vartanov's acclaimed documentary, which, despite the prohibitive conditions it was created in, won the admiration of many of cinema's greatest artists, including Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese.
Child (uncredited)
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.
