Sergei Parajanov

Sergei Parajanov was born on Jan 09, 1924 in Republic of Georgia]. Sergei Parajanov's big-screen debut came with Flower on the Stone directed by Sergei Parajanov in 1962. Sergei Parajanov is known for Ashik Kerib directed by Sergei Parajanov, Yuri Mgoyan stars as Ashik Kerib and Sofiko Chiaureli as Mother. Sergei Parajanov has got 11 awards and 5 nominations so far. The most recent award Sergei Parajanov achieved is Nika Awards. The upcoming new movie Sergei Parajanov plays is Ashik Kerib which will be released on Nov 23, 1988.

One of the 20th century's greatest masters of cinema Sergei Parajanov was born in Georgia to Armenian parents and it was always unlikely that his work would conform to the strict socialist realism that Soviet authorities preferred. After studying film and music, Parajanov became an assistant director at the Dovzhenko studios in Kiev, making his directorial debut in 1954, following that with numerous shorts and features, all of which he subsequently dismissed as "garbage". However, in 1964 he was able to make Tini zabutykh predkiv (1965), a rhapsodic celebration of Ukrainian folk culture, and the world discovered a startling and idiosyncratic new talent. He followed this up with the even more innovative Sayat Nova (1969) (which explored the art and poetry of his native Armenia in a series of stunningly beautiful tableaux), but by this stage the authorities had had enough, and Paradjanov spent most of the 1970s in prison on almost certainly rigged charges of "homosexuality and illegal trafficking in religious icons". However, with the coming of perestroika, he was able to make Ambavi Suramis tsikhitsa (1985), Ashug-Karibi (1988) and The Confession, which survives as Parajanov: The Last Spring (1992), before succumbing to cancer in 1990.