Die Farbe des Granatapfels - Sayat Nova
Sergej Paradschanow – 1969An absorbing portrait of the 18th-century Armenian poet Sayat-Nova which is brimming with metaphors and dreams. Parajanov created a melting pot based on the Armenian and Georgian cultural traditions with their rich religious symbolism and the expressive powers of cinema, the modernist folk art of the 20th century. This classic by Parajanov is not a dramatised portrait of the poet Arutyun Sayadyan, better known as Sayat-Nova (the ‘King of Songs’), but an associative portrait full of metaphors and dreams, arabesques and still lifes. More
