Sergei Parajanov, The Exile (2009)

overview : Sergei Paradjanov, the great Soviet filmmaker of Armenian origin who was born and grew up in Tbilisi, Georgia, studied film in Moscow and worked for many years in Ukraine, talks on camera to Fotos Lamprinos about his life, his films, and events in the USSR under Gorbachev’s Perestroika, a few short months before he died and while the state of his health was already deteriorating. The film includes rare footage of the massacre of Georgian civilians by the Soviet Army in April 1989 and unpublished material from the Ukrainian prison in which Paradjanov served his sentence.

Release Date : Mar 15, 2009

Runtime : 35m

Genre : Documentary  TV Movie  

Companies : Lamba film, EPT

Countries : Greece

Keywords : short film