Sergei Paradjanov's career was more closely related to the time and place in which he lived than that of most directors. So why do his films seem to come from another century, if not another world? In ...

Directors Serge Avedikian and Olena Fetisova's suitably idiosyncratic biopic centers on the eccentric Armenian-born Soviet director Sergei Paradjanov. By Boyd van Hoeij Paradjanov Still - H 2013 The ...

The film is centered on the biography of famous director Sergei Paradjanov. By Vladimir Kozlov MOSCOW – Ukraine has nominated a biopic on Soviet-era director Sergei Paradjanov for the Academy Award in ...

One of the oddest and most rapturously beautiful of all postwar Soviet films, this wildly colorful portrait of the Armenian national poet Sayat Nova, “The Color of Pomegranates” (also called “Red ...

The decades-long process of attrition, neglect and outright persecution by which Soviet authorities destroyed the career of one of Soviet Russia's greatest artists, the Georgian-Ukrainian-Armenian ...

The name of Paradjanov (pictured right) cropped up sporadically in international film circles from the 1960s onwards. First came the struggles to screen his two early masterpieces, Shadows of Our ...

This March the British Film Institute on London’s Southbank will host a season of Armenian film-maker Sergei Paradjanov’s works. The festival will include Paradjanov’s acclaimed features, short films ...

This March the British Film Institute on London's Southbank will host a season of Armenian film-maker Sergei Paradjanov's works. The festival will include Paradjanov's acclaimed features, short films ...

Born in Soviet Georgia to an Armenian family, Sergei Paradjanov (1924-90) blended ethnography and ecstasy in his legend-based fictions. His first feature, “Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors,” from 1964, ...