“Film-collage” made from what was saved from the destruction of the negatives by the Soviet authorities of what was to be a feature film. There is no story as such: on a single stage, different people in different attitudes follow one another without any explicit link between them or any form of logical coherence in what they do; the whole thing is presided over by a markedly surrealist air with certain dreamlike resonances.

	
Kievskie.freski.1966.1080.BluRay.x264.AAC-FiST.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/8B7071512350D35/Kievskie.freski.1966.1080.BluRay.x264.AAC-FiST.mkv

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Subtitles:English

The post Sergei Parajanov – Kiyevskiye freski AKA Kiev Frescoes (1966) (HD) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Also know as “The Top Guy” and “The First Lad” , “Pervyy paren” is Sergei Paradjanov’s first solo film made for Dovzhenko studios! A musical comedy in the tradition of Russian propaganda films (very much in the tradition of Dovzhenko actually), with beautifully lush cinematography, colors and “mise-en-scene” – Not to be missed!

The.First.Lad.1958.DVDrip.x264-LuNar.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/E924B4BEFC3B2AF/The.First.Lad.1958.DVDrip.x264-LuNar.mkv

Language(s):Russian
Subtitles:English

The post Sergei Parajanov – Pervyy paren aka The First Lad (1959) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Singer Oksana has lost her beloved in the war. Everyone thinks he perished, but actually he was taken prisoner, then ran away, hid, fell into American hands, and… Finally, he returns to his village, and meets Oksana.

Ukrainian.Rhapsody.1961.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

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#1:  	Russian 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/DBECD3865F1CFCD/Ukrainian.Rhapsody.1961.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

Language(s):Russian
Subtitles:French hardsubbed, English

The post Sergei Parajanov – Ukrainskaya rapsodiya AKA Ukrainian Rhapsody (1961) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A major foreshadowing of Paradjanov’s later work, the visually prodigious Andriesh is an entertaining tale about a young shepherd who is given a magic shawm (a flutelike instrument) to help him conquer his foes. With its flying sheep, evil wizards, and storm demons—all captured in the gloriously artifical palette of fifties Soviet color stock—Andriesh has the kind of eye-popping, whirlwind weirdness of Paradjanov’s last films, Suram Fortress and Ashik Kerib.

Andriesh.1954.3mmRIP.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/861ED52A628FE00/Andriesh.1954.3mmRIP.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

Language(s):Russian
Subtitles:English

The post Yakov Bazelyan & Sergei Parajanov – Andriesh (1954) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Soviet censors and Communist Party officials objected to Parajanov’s stylized, poetic treatment of Sayat-Nova’s life and complained that it failed to educate the public about the poet. As a result, the film’s title was changed from Sayat-Nova to The Color of Pomegranates, and all references to Sayat-Nova’s name were removed from the credits and chapter titles in the original Armenian release version. The Armenian writer Hrant Matevosyan wrote new, abstractly poetic Armenian-language chapter titles. Officials further objected to the film’s abundance of religious imagery, although a great deal of religious imagery still remains in both surviving versions of the film. Initially the State Committee for Cinematography in Moscow refused to allow distribution of the film outside of Armenia. It premiered in Armenia in October 1969, with a running time of 77 minutes.

Sayat Nova - Sergei Parajanov (1969) Yutkevich cut with commentary.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/C5E43955AE903DC/Sayat_Nova_-_Sergei_Parajanov_(1969)_Yutkevich_cut_with_commentary.mkv

Language(s):Armenian, Russian titles, Georgian, Azerbaijani
Subtitles:English

The post Sergei Parajanov – Sayat Nova aka Tsvet granata aka The Color of Pomegranates [Yutkevich cut] (1969) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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The overtly propagandistic, anti-religious plot of The Flower on the Stone (Tsvetok na kamne, Dovzhenko Film Studio 1960–1962) does not look like promising Parajanov material: when a new Komsomol mine and mining community is established in the Donbas region, a member of a Pentecostal cult sends his daughter Christina to recruit new believers. Arsen Zagorny, an upstanding Komsomol member and a talented violinist, falls in love with Christina and crosses paths with Zabroda, the leader of the local cell of the cult. Additional problems crop up in the form of Grigori Griva a local boy prone to hooliganism and drink and his buddy Chmykh, a dissolute accordion player. Grigori learns to mend his ways thanks to the guidance of Pavel Fedorovich Varchenko, the wise and patient director of the mine, and Liuda, the Komsomol organizer with whom he falls in love. The film’s title refers to fossilized plants visible on pieces of coal.

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https://nitro.download/view/CA9268637934D29/Tsvetok.Na.Kamne.1962.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv
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https://fikper.com/8xt63CuVCG/Tsvetok.Na.Kamne.1962.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language:Russian
Subtitles:English

The post Sergei Parajanov – Tsvetok na Kamne AKA The Flower on the Stone (1962) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Exploring the art of Armenian portraitist Hakob Hovnatanyan, Parajanov revives the culture of Tbilisi of the 19th century.

162MB | 10 min 19 s | 602×481 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/1350A458E29CAA0/Hakob_Hovnatanyan__Sergei_Parajanov__1967.mkv

Language(s):French (few), Armenian (few)
Subtitles:None

The post Sergei Parajanov – Hakob Hovnatanyan (1967) first appeared on Cinema of the World.