Цвет граната, Sayat Nova, The Color of Pomegranates (1969)

Director: Sergei Parajanov Producer: Sergei Parajanov Genre: Art House / Mystery Country: Russia / Armenia Language: Russian / Armenian / EN subtitles A poetic treatment of the life of 18th-century Armenian poet and troubadour Sayat-Nova. Extremely aesthetically The Color Of Pomegranates is Sergei Paradjanov great baroque masterpiece of hallucinatory epic account of the life of the 18th century Armenian national poet Sayat Nova. Conceived as an extraordinarily 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, his old age and death.