Sergei Parajanov, The Exile

Sergei Paradjanov, the great Soviet filmmaker of Armenian origin who was born and grew up in Tbilisi, Georgia, studied film in Moscow and worked for many years in Ukraine, talks on camera to Fotos Lamprinos about his life, his films, and events in the USSR under Gorbachev’s Perestroika, a few short months before he died and while the state of his health was already deteriorating. The film includes rare footage of the massacre of Georgian civilians by the Soviet Army in April 1989 and unpublished material from the Ukrainian prison in which Paradjanov served his sentence.

Sergei Parajanov

Himself

Fotos Lambrinos

Narrator

• Fotos LambrinosWriter · Director
• Yorgos FotinakisEditor

Release date

March 15, 2009

Status

Released

Original language

Greek

Runtime

35m

Genres

Documentary, TV Movie

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