Legend

Kirill Serebrennikov:
»Paradjanov is an artist, a poet, who thinks and speaks to the audience not in the usual narrative way, but in visual images, pictures. These images are always bright, emotional, meaningful and paradoxical. In some ways, this is the absolute of visual cinema. An explosion of color, an explosion of fantasy, an explosion of images burns us immensely, and remains with us as a burn mark forever. The list of Paradjanov's films, that he was not able to direct, unfairly exceeds the list of the works that he managed to produce. Over the past few years, many books and articles with his unpublished, banned or lost scripts and explications have been released. There is a whole community of fans and connoisseurs of Sergey Paradjanov. Bit by bit they collect what belongs to Paradjanov’s world: collages, apocrypha, aphorisms and anecdotes, drawings, letters.

Paradjanov’s films show that any beauty demands cruelty and is very often owed to human blood and sacrifice. The whole life of Sergey Paradjanov is a sacrifice, that he made, so that there would be as much beauty in the world, as possible.«