UID:
kobvindex_ZLB34074602
Format:
1 BD (78 Min.)
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1 Beilage
Edition:
Special edition
ISBN:
9781681434247
Series Statement:
The Criterion collection : [BD] 918
Content:
A hallucinatory epic account of the life of the 18th Century Armenian national poet, Sayat Nova, conveys the glory of what a cinema of high art can be like. Conceived as an extraordinary complex series of painterly tableaux that recall Byzantine mosaics, the film is a dreamlike icon come-to-life of astonishing beauty and rigor. It evokes the poet's childhood and youth, his days as a troubadour at the court of King Heraclius II of Georgia, his retreat to a monastery and his old age and death. (from the container)
Content:
Extras: - Introduction by Daniel Bird (3 min., he explains a little about the 2 versions - Armenian and Russian/international - of the film that are in existence, and how they came to be. The version on this disc is Russian, which was edited without Paradjanov's input. However, as Bird says, it's not a black and white case that the Armenian version is the "director's cut", as it too was meddled with by the studio before release.) - "The World is a Window: Making the Colour of Pomegranates", by Daniel Bird (76 min.). Featuring talking head interviews with western and Eastern European academics, former associates and actors. As well as discussion of the film itself, the documentary offers a great insight into Paradjanov's past work, and provides some essential wider context around the practical and political difficulties that film-makers faced under the Soviet regime. - "Memories of Sayat Nova" (30m 21s, Georgian language/English subs) in which Paradjanov's assistant, by Levon Grigoryan, gives a voiceover to several sequences from the film which serve to both try and explain the meaning of some of the visuals, as well as Paradjanov's intentions. - Audio commentary from Levon Abrahamyan, a cultural anthropologist from the Armenian Academy of Sciences, who worked on the film as a student. (nach dvdcompare.met)
Note:
Orig.: UdSSR, 1969
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Untertitel: Englisch
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Ländercode: A
Language:
Georgian
Keywords:
Sayat nova
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Paradžanov, Sergej Iosifovič
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Kommentar
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Biographie
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Interview
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Kommentar
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Kommentar
Author information:
Abrahamyan, Levon
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