Sergei Parajanov was a Soviet Armenian film director and artist.
He graduated from Tbilisi Conservatory Vocal Department.
In 1945 Parajanov enrolled in the directing department at the VGIK.
In 1964 he abandoned socialist realism and directed the poetic Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, his first film in which he had complete creative control and which won numerous international awards. In The Color of Pomegranates, produced at "Hayfilm", Parajanov presented the new "parajanian" cinema language.
published: 2006-01-01 00:00:00 last updated:2010-02-08 13:58:30
