#The Legend of Suram Fortress

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Sergei Parajanov - The Legend of Suram Fortress (1985)

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Sergei Parajanov - The Legend of Suram Fortress (1985)

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The Legend of Suram Fortress (Sergei Parajanov, 1985)

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Легенда о Сурамской крепости / The Legend of Suram Fortress - 1985

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The Legend of the Suram Fortress (1985)

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The Legend of the Suram Fortress (1985) / Sergei Parajanov

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Exactly a month ago, we celebrated the birth of one of the most influential and outstanding people in the USSR, Sergei Parajanov.

Sergei Parajanov (January 9, 1924 – July 20, 1990) was an Armenian film director and screenwriter who invented his own cinematic style which was out of step with the guiding principles of socialist realism, the only sanctioned art style in the USSR. This, combined with his lifestyle and behaviour, led Soviet authorities to repeatedly persecute and imprison him and suppress his films.

He was born as Sarkis Hovsepi Parajaniants in Tbilisi, Georgia to artistically-gifted Armenian parents, Iosif Parajanov and Siranush Bejanova. He was an incredibly talented person who had the ability to show you the beautiful colors of the world, take something uninteresting and unattractive and transform it into something magnificent and breathtaking. Parajanov's films are full of allegories and metaphors, small important details that one might miss easily if they are not familiar with the eccentric worldview and borderless, unlimited imagination of Sergei. Some of my absolute favorite films directed by him include: "Ukrainian Rhapsody" (1961), "The Color of Pomegranates" (1969), "The Legend of Suram Fortress" (1985)...

He died on 20th of July, 1990 in Yerevan, Armenia at the age of 66 because of the lung cancer.

In a 1988 interview he stated that, "Everyone knows that I have three Motherlands. I was born in Georgia, worked in Ukraine and I'm going to die in Armenia."

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Last Movie: "The Legend of the Suram Fortress" by Sergei Parajanov.

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seen 2024

Ashik Kerib (1988)

The Legend of Suram Fortress (1985)

Typhoon Club (1985)

Moving (1993)

I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (2006)

What Time is it There? (2001)

The Hole (1998)

The River (1997)

Zigeunerweisen (1980)

The Stranger and the Fog (1974)

Far from Home (1975)

The Sealed Soil (1977)

Oasis (2002)

Green Fish (1997)

Secret Sunshine (2007)

Peppermint Candy (1999)

Ashes of Time Redux (1994)

All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001)

That Day, on the Beach (1983)

Mahjong (1996)

The Terrorizers (1986)

A Confucian Confusion (1994)

The Scent of Green Papaya (1993)

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The history and story of Filmmaker Sergei Parajanov ~

" From 1917, the new Union of Soviet Socialist Republics recognised the importance of cinema to the creation of the new state. It built film studios in its republics, such as Ukraine, and their work was subject to the oversight of Goskino, the central film agency in Moscow. However, by the early 1960s and the coming of the 'thaw' after the death of Stalin, it became possible to make Ukrainian films at the studio in Kyiv that could express the nature of Ukrainian life and culture and the director's artistic perspective. A key figure to emerge in this new climate was Sergei Parajanov (1924-1990). His films, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965) and The Colour of Pomegranates (1969) revealed his interest in creating new stories that reflected his passion for cultural identities and histories that were found outside of Russia. For him, film's role was not to propagandise but to represent the artist and their personal view of the world. Parajanov was inspired by Oleksandr Dovzhenko whose earlier Ukrainian films such as Earth (1930) had fused a distinctive avant-garde sensibility with an understanding of Ukrainian people, culture and geography. Dovzhenko's 'cine-poetry' influenced Parajanov's Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors - a Carpathian folk-tale of love, dance, ritual and mountain landscapes. Together with his next film, Sayat Nova or The Colour of Pomegranates (1969), Parajanov's films were unique because of their self-conscious beauty and mystery. Tragically, Parajanov's film career was ruined because of his arrest in 1973. On trumped up charges, he was sentenced to five years loss of freedom' in a hard labour camp for homosexual acts. In 1982, he was again imprisoned on a charge of bribery. Only in 1984, fifteen years after making The Colour of Pomegranates (1969), could he return to film-making with his Georgian film, The Legend of Suram Fortress (1985) and later his Armenian work, Ashik Kerib (1988). Parajanov died in 1990 at the age of 66. His Italian admirers, which included Fellini and Bertolucci wrote, 'Cinema has lost one of its magicians. "

"Always with huge gratitude and pleasure I remember the films of Sergei Parajanov which I love very much. His way of thinking, his paradoxical, poetical... ability to love the beauty and the ability to be absolutely free within his own vision."

Andrey Tarkovsky

"In the temple of cinema there are images, light and reality. Sergei Parajanov was the master of that temple."

Jean-Luc Godard,

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