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Directed by:
Sergei ParajanovScreenplay:
Sergei ParajanovCinematography:
Suren ShakhbazyanComposer:
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Sergei Paradjanov (1924-1990) has been acclaimed as the greatest Russian filmmaker to appear since the golden age of Eisenstein and Dovzhenko. His baroque masterpiece, The Color Of Pomegranates, was banned in Russia for its religious sentiment and nonconformity to "Socialist realism"; its director, a tirelessly outspoken campaigner for human rights, was convicted on a number of trumped up charges and sentenced to five years of hard labor in the gulag. A wave of protest from the international film community led to his release in 1978.
Aesthetically the most extreme film ever made in the USSR, Pomegranates his hallucinatory epic account of the life of the 18th century Armenian national poet Sayat Nova, conveys the glory of what a cinema of high art can be like. Conceived as an extraordinarily complex series of painterly tableaux that recall Byzantine mosaics, the film is a dreamlike icon come-to-life of astonishing beauty and rigor. It evokes the poet's childhood and youth, his days as a troubadour at the court of King Heraclius II of Georgia, his retreat to a monastery, his old age and death.
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If you don't like poetic films, you won't like this. But if poetry resonates with you, this film must immensely please you. It is a stacking of images, images that are almost static. Yes, because of that, the film is lengthy and someone may find it boring, but to tell a biography in this form takes courage. And also talent, which is evident here.
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