Sergei Parajanov belongs to the record of cinema as a figure whose work outlasted the productions that carried it.
The record lists Sergei Parajanov as Soviet Armenian and Georgian film director (1924-1990).
Sergei Parajanov was born at Tbilisi in 1924. His recorded nationality is Russia. He trained at Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography.
The studio system was at its height in this period: contracts were long, the output was industrial, and a handful of studios decided who worked.
He worked as film director, screenwriter and painter.
His name is attached above all to poetic, non-linear, and symbolic nature. Film is a collaborative art in which individual credit is always contested and occasionally deserved.
The filmography includes Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors and The Color of Pomegranates.
He was nominated for European Film Award for Best Director.
That the work was made from Russia shaped it: national industries differ in what they finance, who they cast and which audiences they can reach.
Sergei Parajanov died in 1990, aged 66. The films remain, which is the only form in which a screen career survives.
Achievements
- Notable work: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
- Notable work: The Color of Pomegranates
- Worked as film director, screenwriter and painter
