Sergei Parajanov
The Color of Pomegranates (Tsvet granata: Sayat Nova)
Edition 1988
79'
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1969
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Drama, Biography
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Dialogue:
Armenian, Georgian, Azerbaijani
Director:
Sergei Parajanov
Composer:
Tigran Mansuryan
With:
Sofiko Chiaureli, Melkon Alekyan, Vilen Galstyan
One of cinema's greatest masterpieces, Sergei Parajanov's "The Color of Pomegranates," a biography of the Armenian troubadour Sayat Nova (King of Song) reveals the poet's life more through his poetry than a conventional narration of important events in Sayat Nova's life. We see the poet grow up, fall in love, enter a monastery and die, but these incidents are depicted in the context of what are images from Sergei Parajanov's imagination and Sayat Nova's poems, poems that are seen and rarely heard. Sofiko Chiaureli plays 5 roles, both male and female, and Sergei Parajanov writes, directs, edits, choreographs, works on costumes, design and decor and virtually every aspect of this one-of-a-kind work hailed as revolutionary by Mikhail Vartanov.
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Credits
Director
Sergei Parajanov
Composer
Tigran Mansuryan
With
Sofiko Chiaureli, Melkon Alekyan, Vilen Galstyan
Scenario
Sergei Parajanov
Director of Photography
Suren Shakhbazyan
Editor
Sergei Parajanov, Marfa Ponomarenko
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Dialogue
Armenian, Georgian, Azerbaijani
Countries of production
Union soviétique
Screenplay based on
Sayat Nova
Year
1969