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Sergey PARADZHANOV
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9 January 1924 - 20 July 1990
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Sergey Iosifovich Parajanov was born on January 9, 1924 in the capital of Georgia - Tbilisi, which was then called Tiflis. In 1942-1945 he studied at the vocal department of the Tbilisi Conservatory and at the construction faculty of the Tbilisi Institute of Railway Engineers. In 1949, he got a job as an assistant director at the Dovzhenko Kyiv Film Studio, where he worked until 1960; then he was a director at the Armenfilm and Georgia Film studios. In 1952, Sergei Parajanov graduated from the directorial
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Sergey Iosifovich Parajanov was born on January 9, 1924 in the capital of Georgia - Tbilisi, which was then called Tiflis. In 1942-1945 he studied at the vocal department of the Tbilisi Conservatory and at the construction faculty of the Tbilisi Institute of Railway Engineers. In 1949, he got a job as an assistant director at the Dovzhenko Kyiv Film Studio, where he worked until 1960; then he was a director at the Armenfilm and Georgia Film studios. In 1952, Sergei Parajanov graduated from the directorial faculty of VGIK, where he studied in the workshop of I. Savchenko; his thesis was the film “Moldavian Tale”. The director’s debut in the cinema was the film “Andrees”, then, in addition to several feature films, he shot a number of documentary and popular science films – “Natalia Uzhviy”, “Dumka”, “Golden Hands”, but later spoke of these works as “junk”. In 1965, based on the works of M. Kotsyubinsky, Sergei Parajdanov staged the film Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, in which the expressive romantic manner of the artist was first clearly manifested. At several international film festivals, this film fantasy has won many awards, and Parajanov’s name has gained considerable fame. Even more innovative from the point of view of the visual range was another work of the director and screenwriter, “The Color of Pomegranate”; in the film, consisting of several miniatures, he recreated the biography of the Armenian national poet Sayat-Nova on the colorful historical background of the medieval Caucasus. However, the director, who directed films far from the proclaimed “socialist realism” and disliked the Soviet authorities, eventually paid for his independence and, accused of “homosexuality and the illegal trade in icons”, spent several years in prison. In 1984, Sergei Parajanov made the film “The Legend of the Suram Fortress” based on Georgian folk legend, and in 1988 his last picture – “Ashik-Kerib”, based on the poem of the same name by M.Y. Lermontov, was released.
Sergei Parajanov also wrote scripts and was an artist of several performances.
Sergei Parajanov died of cancer on July 21, 1990 in Yerevan.