Devoted to the great man PARAJANOV

Immediately after his death, he was named the latest genius of the twentieth century movies, one of the most paradoxical characters of modern culture: an acclaimed director and an ordinary prisoner, the universal favorite, ironic and pitiless interlocutor, concurrently both sentimental and vulnerable man, Sergei Paradjanov.

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 ability to be absolutely free within his own vision.

Andrei Tarkovsky

It seems to me, the cinema of Sergei Parajanov didnt begin with the "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors", as many think, but with "Color of the Pomegranate". Probably, besides the film language suggested by Griffith and Eisenstein, the world cinema has not discovered anything revolutionarily new until "Color of the Pomegranate", not counting the generally unaccepted language of the "Andalusian Dog" by Bunuel.

Mikhail Vartanov