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Parajanov Museum

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Parajanov Museum
Parajanov Museum
Parajanov Museum
Parajanov Museum
Parajanov Museum
Parajanov Museum
Parajanov Museum
Parajanov Museum
Parajanov Museum
Parajanov Museum
Parajanov Museum
Parajanov Museum
Parajanov Museum
Parajanov Museum
Parajanov Museum
Phone:
+374 10 538473

Hours:
Sunday10:30am - 5pm
Monday10:30am - 5pm
Tuesday10:30am - 5pm
Wednesday10:30am - 5pm
Thursday10:30am - 5pm
Friday10:30am - 5pm
Saturday10:30am - 5pm


Sergei Parajanov was a Soviet film director and artist of Armenian descent who made significant contributions to Soviet cinematography through Ukrainian, Georgian, and Armenian cinema. He invented his own cinematic style, which was totally out of step with the guiding principles of socialist realism . This, combined with his controversial lifestyle and behaviour, led Soviet authorities to repeatedly persecute and imprison him, and suppress his films. Although he started professional film-making in 1954, Parajanov later disowned all the films he made before 1965 as garbage. After directing Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors Parajanov became something of an international celebrity and simultaneously a target of attacks from the system. Nearly all of his film projects and plans from 1965 to 1973 were banned, scrapped or closed by the Soviet film administrations, both local and federal , almost without discussion, until he was finally arrested in late 1973 on charges of rape, homosexuality and bribery. He was imprisoned until 1977, despite a pleas for pardon from various artists. Even after his release he was a persona non grata in Soviet cinema. It was not until the mid-1980s, when the political climate started to relax, that he could resume directing. Still, it required the help of influential Georgian actor Dodo Abashidze and other friends to have his last feature films greenlighted. His health seriously weakened by four years in labor camps and nine months in prison in Tbilisi, Parajanov died of lung cancer in 1990, at a time when, after almost 20 years of suppression, his films were being featured at foreign film festivals. In January 1988, he said in an interview, Everyone knows that I have three Motherlands. I was born in Georgia, worked in Ukraine and I'm going to die in Armenia. Sergei Parajanov is buried at Komitas Pantheon which is located in the city center of Yerevan.Parajanov's films won prizes at Mar del Plata Film Festival, Istanbul International Film Festival, Nika Awards, Rotterdam International Film Festival, Sitges - Catalan International Film Festival, São Paulo International Film Festival and others.
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