5° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI

TENI ZABYTYCH PREDKOV

by Sergej Parajanov
Country: URSS
Year: 1965
Duration: 97'


Biography

film director

Sergej Parajanov

Sergei Parajanov (Tbilisi, Georgia, 1924-1990), of Armenian extraction, enrolled in 1945 at VGIK, the state-run film institute in Moscow, where he studied under Dovženko, who influenced his early films, including Ukrainian Rhapsody (1961) and A Little Flower on a Stone (1962). 1964 was a watershed year in his career: with Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors he abandoned Socialist realism in favor of research into iconography and folklore which, in 1968, resulted in The Color of Pomegranates. He was ostracized by the Soviet authorities for his artistic and personal ideas, his films were blocked by the censors and he was condemned to forced labor. Freed in 1979, he directed The Legend of Suram Fortress (1984) and Asik Kerib (1988) before dying in 1990.

FILMOGRAFIA

Moldavskaja skazka (1951), Andries (1954), Zolotye ruki (1957), Dumka (1957), Natalya Ushvij (1957), Pervyj paren (1959), Ukrainskaya rapsodiya (Rapsodia ucraina, 1961), Tsvetok na kamne (Il fiore sulla pietra, 1962), Tini zabutykh predkiv (Le ombre degli avi dimenticati, 1964), Kivski Freski (cm, 1966), Hakob Hovnatanyan (cm, doc., 1967), Sayat Nova (Il colore del melograno, 1968), Return to Life (Il segno del tempo, 1980), Ambavi Suramis tsikhitsa (La leggenda della fortezza di Suram, 1984), Arabeskebi Pirosmanis temaze (1985), Ašik Kerib (Asik Kerib - Storia di un ashugh innamorato, 1988).

Cast

& Credits

Director: Sergej Paradzanov.
Plot: da un racconto di Michail Kociubinskij.
Screenplay: Ivan Cendej, Sergej Paradzanov.
Director of photography: Jurij Venko.
Music: Miroslav Skorik.
Art director: G. Jakutovie, M. Rokovskij, L. Bajkova, V. Sikina.
Editor: M. Ponomarenko.
Cast and characters: Ivan Mikolajcuk (Ivan), Larisa Kadocnikova (Maricka), Tat'jana Bestaeva (Palan'ja), Spartak Bagasvili (Jura, lo stregone), Nikolaj Grin'ko (pastore), Leonid Engibarov (Miko, il muto).
Production company: Studi Aleksandr Dovzenko (Kiev).
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