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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

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 12 min
Size: 	2.56 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	790x576 
Aspect ratio:  	1.372
Frame rate: 	24.000 fps
Bit rate: 	4 310 kb/s
BPP: 	0.395
Audio
#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

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 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)

The post Sergei Parajanov – Sayat Nova AKA The Color of Pomegranates (1968) first appeared on Cinema of the World.