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Restored in 2014 by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project at Cineteca di Bologna/L’Immagine Ritrovata in association with the National Film Centre of Armenia and Gosfilmofond of Russia. Restoration funding provided by the Material World Charitable Foundation and The Film Foundation.
As one of cinema’s most sumptuous 20th-century artists, Sergei Parajanov was only able to make a handful of films before his death in 1990, leaving behind a filmography characterized by controversy under Soviet rule. A mad feast-for-the-eyes bio-poem, The Color of Pomegranates was written, directed, choreographed and costumed by Parajanov to be a living embodiment of ancient “illuminated texts,” while bringing to light the fertility and vitality of Armenian culture. In a series of ever-shifting, eye-popping tableaux, there is little dialogue and less camera movement as Parajanov traces the life of an Armenian poet, from birth to death by shower of live chickens — but the audience is carried along by the impossibly rich detail crammed into every frame, to-die-for wardrobes, and the androgynous Sofiko Chiaureli’s adept performance in six different roles. Parajanov spent five years exiled in a prison camp for the “transgression” of creating this wildly beautiful work resplendent with magic and far-ahead-of-its-time aesthetic daring.
Georgian/Armenian film director Sergei Parajanov in his wall of roses in Old Tbilisi. The sculpture is based on a famous photograph by Yuri Mechitov of the director skipping along the street.
The Legend of Suram Fortress is a 1985 film directed by Sergei Parajanov, co-directed by Dodo Abashidze and with cinematography by Yuri Klimenko. It is based on the novel Suramis tsikhe (Surami Fortress) by Daniel Chonkadze. These are photos I took directly from my television screen. Please allow for the limitations of my method.
original photo by: Bill Rogers
The Legend of Suram Fortress is a 1985 film directed by Sergei Parajanov, co-directed by Dodo Abashidze and with cinematography by Yuri Klimenko. It is based on the novel Suramis tsikhe (Surami Fortress) by Daniel Chonkadze. These are photos I took directly from my television screen. Please allow for the limitations of my method.
original photo by: Bill Rogers
The Legend of Suram Fortress is a 1985 film directed by Sergei Parajanov, co-directed by Dodo Abashidze and with cinematography by Yuri Klimenko. It is based on the novel Suramis tsikhe (Surami Fortress) by Daniel Chonkadze. These are photos I took directly from my television screen. Please allow for the limitations of my method.
original photo by: Bill Rogers
potos avtori ar vici vinaa
Sofiko Chiaureli was a Georgian actress, thought to be the muse of filmmaker Sergei Parajanov. She played a wide variety of roles on stage of the Kote Mardzhanishvili Theatre (1960-1964, 1964-2008) and the Rustavelli Theatre (1964-1968).
She appeared in Soviet films including:
Sayat Nova, a 1968 masterpiece in which she played no less than six roles;
Don't Grieve, a popular Georgi Daneliya film;
Natvris khe;
Peristsvaleba;
Ambavi erti kalishvilisa;
Ambavi Suramis tsikhitsa;
Ashug-Karibi;
Khevsurian Ballad (Best Actress Award at the Locarno International Film Festival);
Ischite zhenschinu;
Million v brachnoy korzine.
Married to:
Giorgi Shengelaya (? - ?) (divorced) 2 children;
Kote Makharadze (? - 19 December 2002) (his death).
Honors
People's Artist of Georgia (1976);
People's Artist of Armenia (1979);
Best Actress Award at The All-Union Film Fesival (1966, 1972, 1974);
Best Actress Award at the Locarno International Film Festival (1965);
USSR State Prize (1980).
Trivia
Daughter of Mikheil Chiaureli (director) and Veriko Andjaparidze (Georgian actress).
Former sister-in-law of Eldar Shengelaya.
Mother of Nikoloz Shengelaya
Like Reagan's shoe, the nose of this sculpture of film director Sergei Parajanov has been worn shiny with affection.
Sergei Parajanov (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.
He invented his own cinematic style, which was totally out of step with the guiding principles of socialist realism (the only sanctioned art style in the USSR). This, combined with his controversial lifestyle and behaviour, led Soviet authorities to repeatedly persecute and imprison him, and suppress his films.
potos avtori ar vici vinaa
Sofiko Chiaureli was a Georgian actress, thought to be the muse of filmmaker Sergei Parajanov. She played a wide variety of roles on stage of the Kote Mardzhanishvili Theatre (1960-1964, 1964-2008) and the Rustavelli Theatre (1964-1968).
She appeared in Soviet films including:
Sayat Nova, a 1968 masterpiece in which she played no less than six roles;
Don't Grieve, a popular Georgi Daneliya film;
Natvris khe;
Peristsvaleba;
Ambavi erti kalishvilisa;
Ambavi Suramis tsikhitsa;
Ashug-Karibi;
Khevsurian Ballad (Best Actress Award at the Locarno International Film Festival);
Ischite zhenschinu;
Million v brachnoy korzine.
Married to:
Giorgi Shengelaya (? - ?) (divorced) 2 children;
Kote Makharadze (? - 19 December 2002) (his death).
Honors
People's Artist of Georgia (1976);
People's Artist of Armenia (1979);
Best Actress Award at The All-Union Film Fesival (1966, 1972, 1974);
Best Actress Award at the Locarno International Film Festival (1965);
USSR State Prize (1980).
Trivia
Daughter of Mikheil Chiaureli (director) and Veriko Andjaparidze (Georgian actress).
Former sister-in-law of Eldar Shengelaya.
Mother of Nikoloz Shengelaya
This image shows the north end of
провулок С. Параджанова
provulok S. Paradzhanova
"S. Parajanov lane."
This pedestrian street extends through the Armenian Quarter of Lviv, between:
вулітся Вірменськ
vulitsya Virmens'ka,
"Armenian Street"
and:
вулиця Лесі Українки
vulitsya Lesi Ukrainky
Леся Українка / Lesya Ukrainka was the nom de plume of:
Лариса Петрівна Косач-Квітка
Larysa Petrivna Kosach-Kvitka (1871-1913).
She is remembered as one of the foremost writers of Ukrainian literature, and as a social and political activist.
The clock above the archway is relatively new; it does not appear in an online image dated 2015.
2022 January 11.
Pharvanaz I - King of Kartli - alleged creator of the Georgian alphabet
The Legend of Suram Fortress is a 1985 film directed by Sergei Parajanov, co-directed by Dodo Abashidze and with cinematography by Yuri Klimenko. It is based on the novel Suramis tsikhe (Surami Fortress) by Daniel Chonkadze. These are photos I took directly from my television screen. Please allow for the limitations of my method.
original photo by: Bill Rogers
Sergei Parajanov born in Tbilisi, Georgia in 1924.
This statue is based on this picture:
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After graduating from VGIK (State Institute of Cinematography in Moscow) he started to work as a film director in Kiev, Ukraine.
First success came with the film “Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors” released in 1965, on Dovzhenko film studio. Then was “Color of Pomegranate” or “Sayat-Nova”, released in 1969, studio “Armenfilm”.
In 1973 he was unjustly accused and put in jail for 5 years. Parajanov served up to 4 years in high security prison but was liberated due to the worldwide pressure.
Authorities refused him to work in Kiev and in the end of 1977 he found himself in native city of Tbilisi.
The Legend of Suram Fortress is a 1985 film directed by Sergei Parajanov, co-directed by Dodo Abashidze and with cinematography by Yuri Klimenko. It is based on the novel Suramis tsikhe (Surami Fortress) by Daniel Chonkadze. These are photos I took directly from my television screen. Please allow for the limitations of my method.
original photo by: Bill Rogers