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.

Biografia estilizada do poeta e trovador Sayat Nova do século 18. Descreve a vida do poeta em oito seções, da infância à morte, rica em seus simbolismos sacros e seculares.

Também conhecido como "Sombras dos Ancestrais Esquecidos", o filme mais célebre de Sergei Paradjanov conta a história dos amores contrariados de dois jovens de famílias rivais, que acabam por se reunir na morte. Mas dizer que este filme louco e poético "conta uma história" é limitar o seu alcance. Inspirando-se em lendas ucranianas, Paradjanov também se inspirou nas ricas tradições folclóricas da região, na música, nas cores, nos ritos. Em perpétuo movimento, o filme é um prodigioso emaranhado de imagens de grande beleza, que contam em filigrana a história dos amores infelizes dos protagonistas.

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