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040			_cSILC
041			_arus _beng _hrus _jeng
046			_k1969
050			_aPN1997 _b.S293 1969
100			_aSergei Parajanov
240			_aThe Color of Pomegranates
245			_aSayat Nova _bThe Color of Pomegranates _cSergei Parajanov _h[videorecording] =
246			_aThe Color of Pomegranates
260			_aSoviet Union _bKino International Corp. _bArmenfilm _c1969
300			_a1 videodisc (ca. 88 min.) _bsound, color. _c4 3/4 in.
440			_aSergei Parajanov Collection
500			_a<based on, contains the following, public viewing rights>
520			_aFrom 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." _bFrom 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.
538			_aDVD video; Dolby Digital 1.0; monaural; NTSC; Regions 1-6; 4:3 fullscreen.
546			_aRussian audio with English subtitles.
700			_aSergei Parajanov _eDirector _eWriter
700			_aSofiko Chiaureli _eActor
700			_aMelkon Alekyan _eActor
700			_aVilen Galstyan _eActor
942			_2lcc _cDVD