Sergei Parajanov (Armenian: Õ Õ¥Ö€Õ£Õ¥Õµ Õ"Õ¡Ö€Õ¡Õ»Õ¡Õ¶Õ¸Õ¾; Russian:
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spelled Paradzhanov or Paradjanov; January 9, 1924 â€" July 20, 1990)
was an Armenian film director, screenwriter and artist who made
significant contribution to world cinema with his films Shadows of
Forgotten Ancestors and The Color of Pomegranates. He invented his own
cinematic style, which was totally out of step with the guiding
principles of socialist realism (the only sanctioned art style in the
USSR). This, combined with his controversial lifestyle and behaviour,
led Soviet authorities to repeatedly persecute and imprison him, and
suppress his films. Despite this, Parajanov was named one of the 20
Film Directors of the Future by the prestigious Rotterdam
International Film Festival, and his films were ranked among the
greatest films of all time by the British Film Institute's magazine
Sight & Sound.Although he started professional film-making in 1954,
Parajanov later disowned all the films he made before 1965 as
"garbage". After directing Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (renamed
Wild Horses of Fire for most foreign distributions) Parajanov became
something of an international celebrity and simultaneously a target of
attacks from the system. Nearly all of his film projects and plans
from 1965 to 1973 were banned, scrapped or closed by the Soviet film
administrations, both local (in Kyiv and Yerevan) and federal
(Goskino), almost without discussion, until he was finally arrested in
late 1973 on charges of rape, homosexuality and bribery. He was
imprisoned until 1977, despite pleas for pardon from various artists.
Even after his release (he was arrested for the third and last time in
1982) he was a persona non grata in Soviet cinema. It was not until
the mid-1980s, when the political climate started to relax, that he
could resume directing. Still, it required the help of influential
Georgian actor Dodo Abashidze and other friends to have his last
feature films greenlighted. His health seriously weakened by four
years in labor camps and nine months in prison in Tbilisi, Parajanov
died of lung cancer in 1990, at a time when, after almost 20 years of
suppression, his films were being featured at foreign film festivals.
In January 1988, he said in an interview, "Everyone knows that I have
three Motherlands. I was born in Georgia, worked in Ukraine and I'm
going to die in Armenia." Sergei Parajanov is buried at Komitas
Pantheon in Yerevan.Parajanov's films won prizes at Mar del Plata Film
Festival, Istanbul International Film Festival, Nika Awards, Rotterdam
International Film Festival, Sitges - Catalan International Film
Festival, São Paulo International Film Festival and others.
Parajanov's most comprehensive retrospective in the UK took place in
2010 at BFI Southbank, the BFI's London flagship venue. The
retrospective was curated by Layla Alexander-Garrett and contemporary
art curator and Parajanov specialist Elisabetta Fabrizi (BFI Head of
Exhibitions) who also commissioned a Parajanov-inspired new commission
in the BFI Gallery by contemporary artist Matt Collishaw
('Retrospectre'). A symposium was dedicated to Paradjanov's ouvre
bringing together world experts to discuss and celebrate the
director's contribution to cinema and art.. The director's
retrospective was the best grossing season at BFI Southbank in the
2010-11 financial year.Parajanov was born Sarkis Hovsepi Parajaniants
(Õ Õ¡Ö€Õ£Õ«Õ½ Õ€Õ¸Õ¾Õ½Õ¥ÖƒÕ« Õ"Õ¡Ö€Õ¡Õ»Õ¡Õ¶ÕµÕ¡Õ¶Ö ) to artistically
gifted Armenian parents, Iosif Paradjanov and Siranush Bejanova, in
Tbilisi, Georgia. (The family name of Parajaniants is attested by a
surviving historical document at the Sergei Parajanov Museum in
Yerevan.) He gained access to art from an early age. In 1945, he
traveled to Moscow, enrolled in the directing department at the VGIK,
one of the oldest and highly respected film schools in Europe, and
studied under the tutelage of directors Igor Savchenko and Aleksandr
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