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A documentary by writer and filmmaker Daniel Bird about the making of Sergei Parajanov's 'The Colour of Pomegranates'.
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Small provincial town at the end of the 19th century. Barber Hakob is a passionate pigeon-admirer with them finding his peace of mind and filling the dullness of provincial life with poetry. Soon he is forced to choose his pigeon loft or his daughter's happiness.
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A village boy meets his tragic fate when he is sent to the city to work for a rich trader.
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The members of an amateur theater group share the losses and sorrows of war with Armenian provincial town's inhabitants.
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A man falls in love with and marries a prostitute, then has to defend her against malicious townsfolk.
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Arevik is a young woman taking care of the children of a widower who is in jail, due to her testimony.
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Aghun, early married by her despotic father against her will, wages a war against her husband, her family, the village, the world... She couldn't restrain even when the war is won.
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The last collaboration of Artavazd Peleshian and cinematographer Mikhail Vartanov is a film-essay about Armenia's shepherds, about the contradiction and the harmony between man and nature, scored to Vivaldi's Four Seasons.
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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.
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하얀 바탕 위에 석류가 놓이고, 칼이 놓이고 그 밑으로 핏빛 액체가 번져간다. 남자의 발이 탐스러운 포도를 짓이기면 글씨가 기록된 석판 위로 흥건한 과육이 흐른다.
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Calm of the mountain village is disturbed by the investigation on stray sheep. Four shephards, living in Armenian highlands, cut a stray sheep for a dinner. Revaz, their neighbour and owner of the sheep, soon appears. Shephards even manage to agree on "ransom" but novice police lieutenant interferes with the deal trying to start an official investigation.
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Honor of a Poor Man, a story by Hovhannes Tumanyan, written in 1894. A story about a poor man and a woman with whom an incident happens one day.
