Moviefone: Sergei Parajanov. A Visit
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Sergei Parajanov
Sergei Iosifovich Parajanov was a Soviet film director and screenwriter. His films are known for their poetic, non-linear, and symbolic nature. Widely considered by filmmakers, film critics, and film historians to be one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time, he has been described as a "magician", a "master", and a "conjurer of cinematic worlds".
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culture · Soviet filmmaker (1924–1990) · film director · screenwriter · painter · film editor · film screenwriter · visual artist · filmmaker · director · also Sergei Parajanov, Sergei Paradzhanov, Sergei Paradjanov, Sergei Iosifovich Parajanov, Serhii Paradzhanov, Sarkis Paradzhanian
Born 9 January 1924 · Died 20 July 1990 · Q311311
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 1 entry
PanARMENIAN.Net: U.S. hosts cultural event honoring Sergei Parajanov
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2024· 5 entries
Hyperallergic: The Illusive Films of Sergei Parajanov
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The Hollywood Reporter: Soviet Cinema Legend Inspires Artist in Exile in ‘I Will Revenge This World With Love – S. Parajanov’ (Exclusive Trailer)
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Awarded National legend of Ukraine presented by President of Ukraine (2024).
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Deadline.com: Academy Museum Celebrates Sergei Parajanov’s Centenary With Screening Of Armenian Director’s ‘The Color Of Pomegranates’ Plus Restored Documentary About Him
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Marking the 100th anniversary of Parajanov's birth, Ukrainian film maker Taras Tomenko made the documentary "A Sentimental Journey to the Parajanov Planet"
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2020· 1 entry
Moviefone: Sergei Parajanov, The Exile
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2018· 1 entry
The Stanford Daily: Throwback Thursday: Sergei Parajanov’s ‘The Color of Pomegranates’ is a mystifying masterpiece
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2015· 1 entry
The album Pomegranates, intended as an alternative soundtrack for The Color of Pomegranates and was asked by the Parajanov-Vartanov Institute to cancel the performance in Los Angeles
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2012· 1 entry
actuphoto.com: Works « Mirror and Pomegranate » from the private archives of Andrey Tarkovsky and Sergei Parajanov
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2010· 1 entry
To study, preserve and promote the artistic legacies of Sergei Parajanov and Mikhail Vartanov
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1991· 1 entry
Awarded Shevchenko National Prize (1991).
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1990· 3 entries
Died 1990-07-20.
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Awarded Nika Award (1990).
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Directed by Yuriy Illienko, cinematographer of Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors)
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1988· 1 entry
Parajanov and Abashidze directed Ashik Kerib, based on a story by Mikhail Lermontov
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1986· 1 entry
Awarded Sitges Film Festival Best Director award for The Legend of Suram Fortress (1986).
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1985· 1 entry
The slow thaw within the Soviet Union spurred Parajanov to resume his passion for cinema
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1969· 2 entries
A report by the Committee for State Security to the Central Committee of the Ukrainian Communist party indicated their belief that Parajanov was a negative influence on his younger colleagues, as well as a key purveyor o
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Parajanov moved to Armenia to work on his next film; this was the first time he had visited the country and instilled in him the influence to direct Sayat Nova
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1965· 1 entry
Parajanov abandoned socialist realism and directed the poetic Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, his first film over which he had complete creative control
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1950· 1 entry
Parajanov married Nigyar Kerimova, who came from a Muslim Tatar family, in Moscow
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1948· 1 entry
Was arrested and charged with illegal homosexual acts with MGB officer Nikolai Mikava in Tbilisi
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1945· 1 entry
Was transferred to the Moscow Conservatory, where he studied alongside soprano Nina Dorliak
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1938· 1 entry
“Everyone knows that I have three motherlands. I was born in Georgia, worked in Ukraine and I”
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1924· 2 entries
In Tiflis, known as Tbilisi since 1936, the capital of the Georgian SSR of the Soviet Union
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Born 1924-01-09.
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