Sergei Parajanov's restored film “The Color of a Pomegranate” was released at the box office

"Pomegranate color"/Still from the film

On October 3, the rental of the restored masterpiece of Sergei Parajanov “The Color of the Pomegranate” started on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the great director. This film influenced world pop culture — for example, it inspired the music videos of Madonna and Lady Gaga.

The premiere was attended by figures of Ukrainian cinema, music, media and show business and bloggers, including director and producer Alan Badoev , director Olha Zhurba, musical performers Tember Blanche, Kilimmen, Ya Tonya and others.

The Armenian Embassy in Ukraine became a partner of the show, the Armenian community and the Ambassador of Armenia Volodymyr Karapetyan attended the event. The show was complemented by a performance by the “PikeRyba” band, who performed Ukrainian folk songs. In the hall of the cinema together with “Dovzhenko-Center” they showed the short film “Kyiv Frescoes” by Sergei Parajanov.

Where you can watch the film:

Kyiv

• October 6, 3:40 p.m., “October”
• October 9, 7:00 p.m., House of Cinema (with the participation of Serhiy Trimbach)
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  • October 12, 3:00 p.m., “Ukrainian House”

  Lviv
  October 3, 5 and 8, 8:00 p.m. , “Planet of Cinema” (Forum Lviv)

  Odesa
  October 7, 7:00 p.m., MULTIPLEX “Gagarin Plaza”

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  Poltava
  October 7, MULTIPLEX “Equator”

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  October 8, 7:00 p.m., MULTIPLEX “Dafi”

  Zhytomyr
  October 9, 7:00 p.m., MULTIPLEX “Global UA”< /p>

  Film screenings will be held with lectures in these cities. Also, in many other Ukrainian cities, there will be regular screenings of the film, without lectures. A complete list of cinemas and cities is available on the “Arthouse Traffic” website.

  Details about the film “The Color of Pomegranate”:

  Serhii Paradzhanov created the film in the genre of a poetic film parable. The work was shot at the film studio “Virmenfilm” in Yerevan. The tape tells about the life of the Armenian poet of the 18th century, Sayat-Nova. In the film, through allegorical images, Paradzhanov showed the poet's childhood, youth, maturity, old age and death. Georgian actress Sofiko Chiaureli played the young poet in the film, Vilen Galustyan played the poet in the monastery.

  The restoration of “The Color of Pomegranate” was carried out by the Martin Scorsese Film Fund together with the Cineteca di Bologna. The world premiere of the restored version took place at the 67th Cannes Film Festival in 2014.