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Parajanov: The Last Spring (1992)
Made in wartime and edited in candlelight, Mikhail Vartanov's rarely-seen masterpiece tells about his friendship with the genius Sergei Parajanov who was imprisoned by KGB "at the peak of his artistic power". Vartanov takes us back with the scenes from his censored 1969 film The Color of Armenian Land where Paradjanov is at work on his suppressed chef-d'oeuvre The Color of Pomegranates - widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time - and contrasts it with the shocking request Parajanov sent him in unpublished 1974 letters from the Soviet prisons. Vartanov's camera documents Parajanov's striking last day at work in 1990 during the making of the unfinished Confession. A monumental wordless montage - the entire sixth reel - concludes Vartanov's acclaimed documentary, which, despite the prohibitive conditions it was created in, won the admiration of many of cinema's greatest artists, including Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese.
Updated May 26 2020
Cast
Sergei Parajanov
Himself
Sofiko Chiaureli
Mother in The Confession
Mikhail Vartanov
Himself
Crew
Sergei Parajanov
Director
Sergei Parajanov
Screenplay
Mikhail Vartanov
Director
Mikhail Vartanov
Screenplay
Mikhail Vartanov
Cinematography
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