Soviet-Era Armenian Films (Study Guide) - The Color of Pomegranates, Nahapet, Pepo, Hello, That's Me!, Zangezur, Gikor, Road to the Stage (Paperback)

This is nonfiction commentary. Chapters: The Color of Pomegranates, Nahapet, Pepo, Hello, That's Me , Zangezur, Gikor, Road to the Stage, Guys from the Army Band, We and Our Mountains, . Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 30. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Color of Pomegranates (Armenian: originally released in the Armenian SSR as -, Sayat Nova) is a 1968 motion picture by the Soviet Armenian director Sergei Parajanov. Five minutes were cut (mainly due to religious censorship) for release in the Soviet Union beyond Armenia. It was refused a license for export outside of the Soviet Union and was withdrawn after a two months circulation in the Soviet Union. It made the Top 10 list in Cahiers du cinema in 1982 and Top 100 in Time Out. The Color of Pomegranates is a biography of the Armenian ashug Sayat Nova (King of Song) that attempts to reveal the poet's life visually and poetically rather than literally. The film depicts the poet's coming of age, discovery of the female form, falling in love, entering a monastery and dying, all framed through both Sergei Parajanov's imagination and Sayat Nova's poems. Actress Sofiko Chiaureli notably plays six roles in the film, both male and female. The director had claimed his inspiration was "the Armenian illuminated miniatures. I wanted to create that inner dynamic that comes from inside the picture, the forms and the dramaturgy of colour." Parajanov once made a speech in Minsk in which he asserted that the Armenian public very likely did not understand Sayat Nova, but then said that people "are going to this picture as to a holiday" (Parajanov, "Vystuplenie" 610). The film deals with such themes such as: The film could be considered non-narrative, with the story carried visually or aurally, and uses highly conceptual imagery. It is a ...http: //booksllc.net/?id=1624850