Sergei Paradjanov, the great Soviet filmmaker of Armenian origin who was born and grew up in Tbilisi, Georgia, studied film in Moscow and worked for many years in Ukraine, talks on camera to Fotos Lamprinos about his life, his films, and events in the USSR under Gorbachev’s Perestroika, a few short months before he died and while the state of his health was already deterioratin...
Traveling Ukrainian State Choir
The Dumka Choir was founded during the war, and over the years has won the love and respect of national and international audiences.
Conducted by distinguished teacher of the Ukrainian SSR O. Soroka.
Short film by Paradjanov made in 1958 in Kiev, Ukraine, produced by the Dovzhenko Film Studio.
The ARM Ministry of Culture, Cinema Centre of Armenia, and Hayk Ordyan present a documentary about world-famous film director, author of distant montage Artavazd Peleshyan.
World-famous American documentarist Godfrey Reggio, German well-known film critic Hans Joahim Shlegel, Russian film world authorities Mikhail Shvidkoy, Sergey Miroshnichenko, Peleshyan's close friends -- pai...
Arabeskebi Pirosmanis temaze (Arabesques on the Pirosmani Theme)
(1985), 25mins
A short mediation on the work of Georgian painter Niko Pirosmaniszvili (1862-1918).
Sergei Paradjanov was born in Tblisi, Georgia (former Soviet Union) in 1924. In 1964 he was able to direct 'Shadows of our Forgotten Ancestors'; a boldly conceived and astonishingly photographed blend of enchanting m...
Edited screen tests of Parajanov's unfinished film. On the twentieth anniversary of the liberation of Kiev from the Nazis, a film director pays a stevedore to deliver a bunch of flowers to a general. By accident the director gives the wrong address and the stevedore delivers the flowers to a war widow who is currently working at an art museum.