Parajanov: The Last Spring
""Exemplifies the power of art" —Francis Ford Coppola"
Overview
Made in wartime and edited in candlelight, Vartanov's rarely-seen masterpiece tells about his friendship with the genius Parajanov who was imprisoned by KGB "at the height of his fame ". Vartanov resurrects the riveting scenes from his banned 1969 film The Color of Armenian Land, where Paradjanov concocts the chef-d'oeuvre The Color of Pomegranates - widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time - then reveals the shocking request Parajanov sent him in unpublished 1974 letters from Ukrainian prisons. Vartanov's camera documents Parajanov's staggering last day at work in 1990 during the making of the unfinished Confession - which survives in The Last Spring - as Parajanov comments on this cherished autobiographical film. The foremost achievement of The Last Spring, emphasized by critics, is Vartanov's exquisite wordless montage that "evoked the very soul" of Parajanov and earned the praise of many of cinema's greatest masters, such as Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola.
About Parajanov: The Last Spring (1992)
Released in 1992, Parajanov: The Last Spring is a documentary film from Varda Nova Films (Armenia). It was directed by Sergei Parajanov and Mikhail Vartanov and written by Mikhail Vartanov and Sergei Parajanov. The cast is led by Sergei Parajanov, Mikhail Vartanov, Sofiko Chiaureli, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy and Svetlana Shcherbatyuk. With a runtime of 1h 0m, the film averages 5.1/10 across 7 TMDB ratings.
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