Cinema of Parajanov
BIOGRAPHY Sergei Parajanov was born in 1924 in Tbilisi, Georgia, from armenian parents. After attending Conservatory as a singer, Parajanov joined the VGIK film school in Moscow, where he studied under Igor Savchenko and Alexander Dovzhenko. His first years of directing career were in the context of the film industry of the Ukrainan SSR, and featured conformist works. It was in 1964 that Parajanov directed Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors , his first fully artistic film. His follow up film Sayat-Nova has been heavily censored by Soviet Authorities and renamed The Colour of Pomegranates . Even so, the film consolidated Parajanov's fame on a worldwide scale. In 1973, Parajanov was arrested with the charge of homosexuality, due to his activism in protesting against the purges in Ukraine from the previous years. He was released in 1977, on the pressure of the international filmmaking community. Still not allowed to direct, Parajanov resorted to collage and plastic art in this period of h...
