Sergei Parajanov

Sergei Parajanov Iosifovich ( native Sarkis Howsepi Paradschanian; Georgian სერგეი ( სერგო ) ფარაჯანოვი; Armenian Սարգիս Հովսեպի Պարաջանյան; Russian Сергей Иосифович Параджанов; born January 9, 1924 in Tiflis, Transcaucasian SFSR, Soviet Union, now Tbilisi, Georgia; † 21 July 1990 Yerevan, Soviet Union, today Armenia) was a Soviet film director. The " cinema rebel" was one of the most original and most celebrated directors of the 20th century. His work reflects the ethnic diversity of the Caucasus.

Life

He was born the son of Armenian businessman Josif Paradschanian and his wife Siranusch Bedschanian in Georgia. In 1942 he graduated from high school and began studying at the University of Railway Engineering. He left the university to study music and dance. In 1945 he enrolled at the State Film Institute ( WGIK ) in Moscow, where the directors Igor Savchenko and Alexander Dovzhenko were his teachers.

He moved to Kiev, where in 1952 his first short film, Moldowskaja Skaska and 1955, his first feature film Andri Esch emerged. The film Tini sabutych predkiw ( " Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors ", 1964) more clearly from the state-imposed socialist realism. He described a tragic love story among mountain farmers, which is determined by folklore and religion. His visual intensity he attracted international attention. 1965, the film was awarded the Grand Prize at the Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata, the Rome Film Festival and the Prize of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

In the Soviet censors Parajanov came with the film in disrepute. His film project Kyiv Frescoes was canceled, banished the footage in the archive. In 1966 he moved his residence to Yerevan, produced a documentary there. In 1969 he presented a surreal film about the Armenian troubadour Sayat Nova finished. The work was not allowed to wear the chosen name of the director, had to be changed in Zwet granata ( " The Color of Pomegranates" ). The director Sergei Jutkewitsch was commissioned to produce an ideologically smoothed Russian language version. Nevertheless, the film does not hit the theaters and was premiered in 1984. Parajanov handed to the authorities in the period following a four more film scripts. All were rejected by the censorship.

On 17 December 1973 he was arrested in Kiev and sentenced in 1974 for alleged promotion of homosexuality to five years of hard prison camp in the Gulag. The conviction led to international protests by artists, writers and directors such as Federico Fellini, Roberto Rossellini and Michelangelo Antonioni. The French poet Louis Aragon was to appear in person at Party leader Leonid Brezhnev. In GULAG Parajanov created collages and drawings. After four years, he was released from prison. The work ban remained until 1984 in force.

Pardaschanow moved to Tbilisi. In 1982 he was again arrested there for alleged bribery, spent nearly a year in a Georgian prison. 1984, the labor ban was lifted on the initiative of the Georgian nomenklatura and Parajanov was allowed to make movies again. In the same year Ambawi Suramis zichitsa arose in 1985 was followed by a documentary about the Georgian painter Niko Pirosmani. In Tbilisi, his first exhibition of visual art works was opened.

His last film, Aschugi Qaribi, ( Aşık Kerib, " Kerib, the minstrel " ) was born in 1988 in Azerbaijan based on a novel by Mikhail Lermontov. He was awarded the European Film Award for the best equipment. An autobiographical film under the title The Confession could not be completed. This footage was later part of a documentary on the life of film director who won the award of the Russian Film Academy. Parajanov died of cancer.

Since 2005, named after him for the life's work of internationally renowned directors will be at the film festival "Golden Apricot " Yerevan awarded.

In 2013, using the Georgia -born singer Katie Melua excerpts from the movie " The Color of Pomegranates" for the music video for her song " Love Is A Silent Thief".

Private

He was gay, was indicted in 1947 for the first time in Tbilisi because of homosexuality and sentenced to several months in prison. In 1950 he married the young Tatar Nigjar Kerimowa, who was murdered a short time later by family members because of her marriage to a Christian. In 1956 he married the Ukrainian Svetlana Schtscherbatjuk, with whom he had a son, Suren. In 1962 he was divorced. His nephew Georgi Parajanov is also a director.

Quotes

• " In the temple of the film there are images, light and reality. Sergei Parajanov was the master of this temple. " (Jean -Luc Godard )
• " ' The color of the Grant apple ' by Parajanov is in my opinion one of the best contemporary films that impressed with perfection and beauty. " (Michelangelo Antonioni )
• "I remember the films of Sergei Parajanov, which I love very much, always with great gratitude and pleasure. His way of thinking, his paradoxical poetical ... ability to love the beauty and the ability in his vision be absolutely free. " ( Andrei Tarkovsky )

Filmography

• Moldovskaya skazka (1951 )
• Andriesh (1954 )
• Zolotye ruki (1957 )
• Natalya Ushvij (1957 )
• Dumka (1957 )
• Pervyj paren (1959 )
• Ukrainskaya Rapsodiya (1961 )
• Tsvetok na Kamne (1962 )
• Tini zabutykh predkiv (German Fire Horse, 1964)
• Hakob Hovnatanyan (1967 )
• Sayat Nova (Eng. The Color of Pomegranates, 1968)
• Ambawi Suramis zichitsa (1984 )
• Arabeskebi Pirosmani temaze (1985 )
• Ashugi Quaribi (German Kerib, the minstrel, 1988)
• Confession ( 1990)