KIEVSKIY FRESKIYKIEVSKIY FRESKIYSergei Parajanov, 1966 Armenia,
EXP, 00:15:00“Kievskiy Freskiy” (1966) brought together the remnants from a feature film project aborted by the Ukraine’s Dovjenko Studios, which had produced Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors. Having written several drafts of the screenplay, Parajanov ventured to film the story of a family displaced by World War II, using stylised and austere images. Perhaps the project’s most interesting aspect concerns how the filmmaker used his usual poetic and liturgical style to recount a contemporary story rather than a story based on folklore. This edited version of rehearsals and tests recorded during the pre-production phase, which lasted approximately one year, was prepared in the 1980s by the Khanzhonkov Studios in Russia, founded in 1907. (SDB)
PRODUCTION
Sergei Parajanov
COPY CONTACT
Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Center,
info.dc@dovzhenkocentre.org,
http://www.dovzhenkocentre.org
