Sayat Nova The Color of Pomegranates Sergei Parajanov [videorecording] =

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Sergei Parajanov

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TextLanguage: Russian Summary language: English Original language: Russian Subtitle language: English Series: Sergei Parajanov CollectionPublication details: Soviet Union Kino International Corp. Armenfilm 1969Description: 1 videodisc (ca. 88 min.) sound, color. 4 3/4 inOther title:

The Color of Pomegranates

Uniform titles:

The Color of Pomegranates

LOC classification:

PN1997 .S293 1969

Summary: From case cover: Segei 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 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 Il of Georgia, his retreat to a monastery, his old age and death. There has never been a film like this magical work. It fully justifies critic Alexei Korotykov's remark: "Paradjanov made films not about how things are, but how they would have been had he been God." From IMDb: One of the greatest masterpieces of the 20th century, Sergei Parajanov's "Color of the Pomegranate," 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 6 roles, both male and female, and Sergei Parajanov writes, directs, edits, choreographs, works on costumes, design and decor and virtually every aspect of this revolutionary work.

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From case cover:
Segei 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 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 Il of Georgia, his retreat to a monastery, his old age and death.
There has never been a film like this magical work. It fully justifies critic Alexei Korotykov's remark: "Paradjanov made films not about how things are, but how they would have been had he been God."

From IMDb:
One of the greatest masterpieces of the 20th century, Sergei Parajanov's "Color of the Pomegranate," 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 6 roles, both male and female, and Sergei Parajanov writes, directs, edits, choreographs, works on costumes, design and decor and virtually every aspect of this revolutionary work.

DVD video; Dolby Digital 1.0; monaural; NTSC; Regions 1-6; 4:3 fullscreen.

Russian audio with English subtitles.

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