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Legenda o suramskoj kreposti
- Runtime:
- 87 min.
- Year of Production:
- 1984/85
- Country:
- UdSSR
- Director:
- Cast:
- Weriko Andschaparidse
David "Dodo" Abaschidse
Sofiko Tschiaureli - Production Company:
- Berlinale Section:
- Forum
- Berlinale Category:
- Essay Film
Sergej Paradjanov recounts an old Georgian legend with his imaginative fantasy. The legend is about a fortress on the border whose walls are penetrated again and again. A fortune teller prophesies that a young warrior must be walled into the fortress to make it impenetrable. The fortune teller is the former love of a peasant who is freed by his lord and looses his wife. His son takes the prophesy upon himself, sacrifices himself and becomes a folk hero.
“I am the only Soviet director that was imprisoned by three different regimes, under Stalin, under Brezhnev and under Andropov,« says the Armenian-Georgian Filmmaker Paradjanov.
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BIOGRAFIE Sergej (Sergei) Paradjanov (Parajanov, Paradzhanov)
One of the 20th century's greatest masters of cinema Sergei Parajanov was born in Georgia to Armenian parents and it was always unlikely that his work would conform to the strict socialist realism that Soviet authorities preferred. After studying film and music, Parajanov became an assistant director at the Dovzhenko studios in Kiev, making his directorial debut in 1954, following that with numerous shorts and features, all of which he subsequently dismissed as "garbage". However, in 1964 he was able to make Feuerpferde (1964), a rhapsodic celebration of Ukrainian folk culture, and the world discovered a startling and idiosyncratic new talent. He followed this up with the even more innovative Die Farbe des Granatapfels (1969) (which explored the art and poetry of his native Armenia in a series of stunningly beautiful tableaux), but by this stage the authorities had had enough, and Paradjanov spent most of the 1970s in prison on almost certainly rigged charges of "homosexuality and illegal trafficking in religious icons". However, with the coming of perestroika, he was able to make Die Legende der Festung Suram (1985), Kerib, der Spielmann (1988) and The Confession, which survives as Parajanov: The Last Spring (1992), before succumbing to cancer in 1990.
FILMOGRAFIE Sergej (Sergei) Paradjanov (Parajanov, Paradzhanov) (selection)
1994 Parajanov - Ein Requiem
1992 Parajanov: The Last Spring (Documentary) (segment "The Confession")
1990 Khostovanank
1988 Kerib, der Spielmann
1985 Die Legende der Festung Suram
1984/85 Legenda o suramskoj kreposti
1969 Die Farbe des Granatapfels
1961 Ukrainskaya rapsodiya
1959 Pervyy paren
FILMOGRAFIE David "Dodo" Abaschidse (selection)
1984/85 Legenda o suramskoj kreposti
Ambavi Suramis tsikhitsa @IMDb
Sergei Parajanov @IMDb
Dodo Abashidze @IMDb
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