The Color of Pomegranates (Armenian: Õ†Õ¼Õ¡Õ¶ Õ£Õ¸Ö‚ÕµÕ¶Õ¨, romanized:
NÅ™an guynÉ™; Georgian: áƒ'რრწáƒ"ულის ფáƒ"რი;
Russian: Цвет граната, romanized: Tsvet granata) is a 1969
Soviet Armenian art film written and directed by Sergei Parajanov. The
film is a poetic treatment of the life of 18th-century Armenian poet
and troubadour Sayat-Nova. It has appeared in some polls as one of the
greatest films ever made.The Color of Pomegranates is a biography of
the Armenian ashug Sayat-Nova (King of Song) that attempts to reveal
the poet's life visually and poetically rather than literally. The
film is presented with little dialogue using active tableaux which
depict the poet's life in chapters: Childhood, Youth, Prince's Court
(where he falls in love with a tsarina), The Monastery, The Dream, Old
Age, The Angel of Death and Death. There are sounds and music and
occasional singing but dialogue is rare. Each chapter is indicated by
a title card and framed through both Sergei Parajanov's imagination
and Sayat Nova's poems. Actress Sofiko Chiaureli notably plays six
roles in the film, both male and female. According to Frank Williams,
Parajanov's film celebrates the survival of Armenian culture in face
of oppression and persecution, "There are specific images that are
highly chargedâ€"blood-red juice spilling from a cut pomegranate into
a cloth and forming a stain in the shape of the boundaries of the
ancient Kingdom of Armenia; dyers lifting hanks of wool out of vats in
the colours of the national flag, and so on".Parajanov, the director,
said his inspiration was "the Armenian illuminated miniature," and
that he "wanted to create that inner dynamic that comes from inside
the picture, the forms and the dramaturgy of colour." He also
described this film as a series of Persian miniatures.His close friend
Mikhail Vartanov has maintained that Parajanov's misunderstood
cinematic language is "simple and only appears to be complex" and he
partly demystified it in Parajanov: The Last Spring. The Color of Pomegranates Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter