Parajanov. A Ticket to Eternity

Release Date: 2018-03-28

Overview: Documentary about the life of Sergei Parajanov, a prominent Soviet-era filmmaker who was active in Ukraine, Georgia and Armenia and was persecuted by the communist government for his views on the pretext of his homosexuality, which was a crime in the USSR. The centerpiece of this documentary is Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, a 1965 movie directed by Parajanov, that awakened the Ukrainian national consciousness which had been suppressed by decades of Soviet rule.

Rating: 8 / 10

Cast

Sergei Parajanov

as Self (archival footage, voice)

Larysa Kadochnykova

as Self

Marina Vlady

as Self

Svetlana Shcherbatyuk

as Self

Patrick Cazals

as Self