The Color of Pomegranates
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The Color of Pomegranates (originally released in the Armenian SSR as Sayat Nova) is a 1968 art film by the Soviet director Sergei Parajanov, considered a masterpiece by Federico Fellini, Jean-Luc Godard and Michelangelo Antonioni. It was censored and banned in the Soviet Union but made the top 10 list in Cahier Du Cinema in 1982 and Top 100 in Time Out.
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One of the greatest masterpieces of the 20th century, Sergei Parajanov's "Color of the Pomegranate", a biography of the Armenian troubadour Sayat Nova (King of Song) reveals the poet's life more through his poetry than a conventional narration of important events in Sayat Nova's life. We see the poet grow up, fall in love, enter a monastery and die, but these incidents are depicted in the context of what are images from Sergei Parajanov's imagination and Sayat Nova's poems, poems that are seen and rarely heard. Sofiko Chiaureli plays 6 roles, both male and female, and Sergei Parajanov writes, directs, edits, choreographs, works on costumes, design and decor and virtually every aspect of this revolutionary work void of any dialog or camera movement.
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- Parajanov.com The Color of Pomegranates (Sayat Nova)
- The Color of Pomegranates (Sayat Nova) at the Internet Movie Database
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