Parajanov biography photo

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He wrote and sang in three, and, possibly, in four languages ​​- Armenian, Azerbaijani, Georgian, and Persian. I leafed through his notebook, where he personally wrote down the words of his song songs, and he wrote part in Georgian letters in Armenian, part of the Armenian-in Azerbaijani. Saint was expelled from Tiflis for falling in love with a sister according to another version, the daughter of Tsar Irakli II Anna, then returned to the capital and again went to the monastery.

According to legend, Sayat-Nova died under the blows of the Persian sabers during prayer and was buried in Tbilisi, near the walls of the Armenian Church Surb Gevork. February, and the film, shot by one poet Parajanov about another Sayat-Nova, tells how he grew up, about his love, about the departure of the monastery and death. But the officials from the cinema could not understand and accept the metaphorical, woven from the images and allusions of the language of the picture, nor the story built on symbols and allegories, nor static “photographic” scenes and frames, nor novelty and extraordinary thinking of the director.

As a result, the film was subjected to censorship, changed the name from the original “Sayat-Nova” to “Grenade Color” and was repeated by director Sergei Yutkevich. For many years, Yutkevich was accused of distorting the author’s intention that it was apparently inevitable, but now it is not without reason that he was in reality he saved the film. Rejected by Soviet officialdom, the “grenade color” was admitted with admiration in the world.

Today it is unconditionally recognized as a masterpiece and is still demonstrated in different countries. According to the British Institute of Cinema, he is included in the directorial hundreds of the best films of all time. Based on the “Pomegranate colors”, the music clips of the World Celebrities of Madonna and Lady Gaga were shot ... And this list can be continued indefinitely.

August GO. He wrote about a dozen scenarios, including such a “harmless” as “a miracle in Odens”, a story about the life of Andersen’s storyteller together with Viktor Shklovsky. But not one of them was realized - bureaucracy was not asleep. And worse - the special services did not doze off. Parajanov was on the sight of the KGB. Disnerving this, the director continued to be friends with the dissidents, although he could not be called the dissident himself and from time to time to publicly speak with "seditious anti -Soviet speeches." And the security forces moved to action.

Anonymous denunciations were fabricated, a criminal case was sewn, and charges were made. The court was of course! The author of the photo, Yuri Mechitov signature to the photo, Sergey Parajanov at home poses with a portrait of an unknown boy presented to him. December th. To survive in a Soviet prison, having fallen there for homosexuality, was extremely difficult. Parajanov succeeded, although he went through real hell - torment, mockery, suicide attempt, severe illnesses, hunger ...

Prisoners who did not believe at first that the famous director came to them, gradually imbued with respect for him as an artist. Parajanov’s prison conclusion turned into a new surge of talent, creativity and extraordinary brightness of creative solutions. In these years, he created dozens of collages and drawings, among which illustrations for the film “The Gospel of Pasolini”, variations on the Jacoconda’s theme, portraits of criminals sitting with him, a deck of playing cards and the famous “thalers”, coins squeezed out on lids from bottles of milk with him are distinguished.

The campaign for the liberation of the director, which Lily Brik, Andrei Tarkovsky, Lukino Visconti, Robert de Niro, and other world -famous artists of art and literature, gave the result when French writer Louis Aragon agreed to come to the Soviet Union to receive the Order of Friendship of Peoples. He asked Leonid Brezhnev to free Parajanov. And he achieved his own. The director was released on December 31 and returned home in Tbilisi.

The author of the photo, Yuri Mechitov signature to the photo, a symbol of freedom - set and performed by Sergey Parajanov in a lane next to his house. Parajanov called him the "frame of the century." In the year, by the director of the director, in Tbilisi, the monument was opened by the sculptor Vazha Mikaberidze, created in this photograph. May go. In the year, Parajanov begins to work on the film "The Legend of the Suram Fortress." In order to avoid troubles in the titers of the film, two directors are formally indicated.

David Abashidze agreed to become a co -author of Parajanov. The film tells about the walls of the Georgian Suram fortress, which all the time fell, although the best stones and strongest solutions were used in their construction. But the walls still did not want to stand. And then the fortuneteller predicted that the fortress would be able to build when the boy would marry in her wall alive.But Parajanov exacerbates the plot and in the film a young handsome guy consciously donates himself.

Saturated by folklore and mystical associations, the film was released in the year. The author of the photo, Yuri Mechitov Signature to the photo, Sergey Parajanov bites grenades in the same way that the monks ate in the film “Sayat-Nova” “Color Pomegranate”.

I was able to work. In the year, a large exhibition of his works in Tbilisi took place, and exactly three years later - in Yerevan. In the same year, together with David Abashidze, he began working on the film "Ashik-Kerib" based on the fairy tale Lermontov, written on Azerbaijani material. This is probably the most perfect of all the films of Parajanov. But in Armenia he was not accepted, since he talked about Azerbaijanis, and in Azerbaijan he was not appreciated because he was removed by the Armenian.

This was Parajanov’s last film. He wrote the death of the Confession Scenario in the hospital when he was treated for pneumonia. The film was supposed to talk about his childhood, about early memories and experiences. However, the shooting of "confession" lasted only two days. Because of a progressive disease, he could not continue work. We were his ingenious films, amazing collages and drawings collected in the Yerevan Museum of Parajanov.

This portrait of Parajanov called "Jaconde." November, Sergey Parajanov created his own, poetic, built on metaphors, cinema, where feelings and thoughts are transmitted through the construction of personnel, the movement of characters, and the audience, as it were, participate in the design of the plot canvas, if they desired, filling static frames, similar to paintings or photographs, content, giving them emotional and even semantic content.

So he acted all his life. Photo by Yuri Mechitov. All rights are protected.