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The fun-loving theater director Givi is torn from his complacency when he and a group of friends witness a brutal crime in an underpass. Filled with remorse over his inaction, he begins to radically question his life, his relationships, and his work. How can art be created if one is indifferent to life? What responsibility does everyone have towards society? The shocking experience becomes the trigger for a deeply felt confrontation with his very personal attitude to the world.

Peristsvaleba 1968 1080p WEB-DL AAC2.0 H264.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 21 min
Size: 	2.62 GiB
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Resolution: 	1920x1080 
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	24.000 fps
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#1:  	Georgian 2.0ch AAC LC @ 125 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/3C07AB05A773E2E/Peristsvaleba_1968_1080p_WEB-DL_AAC2.0_H264.mkv

Language(s):Georgian
Subtitles:English (Hardcoded)

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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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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 12 min
Size: 	2.56 GiB
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Resolution: 	790x576 
Aspect ratio:  	1.372
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Bit rate: 	4 310 kb/s
BPP: 	0.395
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#1:  	2.0ch FLAC @ 341 kb/s (Armenian (main), Georgian, Azerbaijani)
#2:  	English 2.0ch FLAC @ 376 kb/s (Commentary by Levon Abrahamyan)

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

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

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A Piece of Sky is a 1980 Soviet comedy film directed by Henrik Malyan, based on Vahan Totovents’s story “Light Blue Flowers”. It is a societal critique told through the love story between Torik, a shy outcast janitor, and Anjel, a prostitute.

Synopsis:
Orphaned young Torik is adopted by his aunt, Turnanta, and uncle, Grigor-agha. His uncle tries to interest in his profession, making saddles for donkeys, but the boy dreams only of freedom from Armenia’s repressive society of the 1930s. The boy takes over the business upon his uncle’s death. As he grows up, his aunt tries to find him a wife. However, due to his job and status, no woman in the village wants to marry him.

A trio of prostitutes arrive in town, as men begin pacing haughtily outside the brothel door, sneaking in while no one is looking. Torik enters, where he meets a beautiful prostitute named Anjel. He falls in love with her, and declares to his aunt that he wants this prostitute as his wife. The young man is forced to stand up against town bigotry and insist on his own way of life, as he is willing to do anything to forge his own happiness. Together, these two marginalised characters are redeemed and brought back into society through traditional rites.

1.25GB | 1h 27m | 720×572 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/FEE61DC6F8B46E7/A_Piece_of_Sky_(1980).mkv

Language(s):Armenian
Subtitles:English

The post Henrik Malyan – Ktor me yerkinq AKA A Piece of Sky AKA A Slap in the Face (1980) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
Wandering minstrel Ashik Kerib falls in love with a rich merchant’s daughter, but is spurned by her father and forced to roam the world for a thousand and one nights – but not before he’s got the daughter to promise not to marry till his return. It’s told in typical Paradjanov style, in a series of visually ravishing ‘tableaux vivants’ overlaid with Turkish and Azerbaijani folksongs.

1.97GB | 1h 16m | 768×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/2F60FF00118D8E2/Ashik_Kerib_(1988)_–_Sergei_Parajanov,_Dodo_Abashidze.mkv
or
https://tezfiles.com/file/428b8e71d1797/Ashik_Kerib_%281988%29_–_Sergei_Parajanov%2C_Dodo_Abashidze.mp4

Language(s):Azerbaijani
Subtitles:English,Russian,Japanese (muxed)

The post Sergei Parajanov & Dodo Abashidze – Ashug-Karibi aka The Hoary Legends of the Caucasus (1988) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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The work of painter, musician, mystic and filmmaker Sergei Paradjanov (1924-1990) constantly defies categorisation. His films are notable for their lyrical inspiration and great aesthetic beauty, but riled the Soviet authorities to such an extent that Paradjanov faced constant harrassment throughout his life. Like his earlier film, Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors (1965), The Colour of Pomegranates was banned…
Ostensibly a biopic of rebellious 18th century Armenian poet Sayat Nova, The Colour of Pomegranates follows the poet’s path from his childhood wool-dying days to his role as a courtier and finally his life as a monk. But Armenian director Sergei Paradjanov warns us from the start that this is no ordinary biopic: “This is not a true biography,” he has his narrator state during the opening credits.
Indeed it is not. With barely any dialogue, The Colour of Pomegranates depicts the poet’s story through a series of extraordinary lyrical tableux set to his work – read by the narrator at the start of each new chapter of Sayat Nova’s life. It’s akin to visual choreography, with esoteric, intriguing and often unforgettable imagery…
Vivid and iconographic, the images interweave landscapes, costumes and music to form a metaphorical history of the Armenian nation and a tangible expression of its spirit, free from any Soviet ideological constraints of the time of its making.

http://www.nitroflare.com/view/1BA7621D39CE6AF/Sergei_Parajanov_-_%281968%29_The_Colour_of_Pomegranates.mkv

Eng srt:
http://subscene.com/subtitles/the-color-of-pomegranates/english/722663

Language(s):Armenian, Azerbaijani
Subtitles:English, Italian, Spanish (optional)

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