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- House-Museum of Sergei Parajanov
The house-museum of Sergei Parajanov is a kind of tribute to one of the greatest figures of world cinema of the twentieth century. Sergei Parajanov was born in 1924 in Tbilisi in an Armenian family. After graduating from VGIK in Moscow, he was sent to work in the Dovzhenko Film Studio in Kiev. Here in 1963 he created the film “Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors”, which brought him world fame on the one hand and difficulties on the other, paradoxically as it may seem. His next anti-war film "The Frescoes of Kiev" was generally banned. In 1966, Parajanov was invited to Armenia, where he shot his best film "Color of Pomegranate", which Soviet censorship released on the screen only after significant reductions. Nevertheless, this film received international recognition, thereby provoking even greater dissatisfaction of the authorities. Because of this film, a film director in Ukraine was arrested and imprisoned for 5 years. Later, a second arrest in Georgia for 7.5 months followed, depriving him of the opportunity to work in the field of cinematography for 15 years. All these years, when Parajanov could not make films and even when he was imprisoned, he continued his creative activity - he painted, made collages, dolls and hats from any material at hand. "I was forbidden to make films, I began to create collages. Collage is a compressed film," he said, and it was true. Parajanov was allowed to make films only in 1983 in Georgia, where he created "The Legend of the Suram Fortress." Despite the difficulties of life and the undeserved suffering of Parajanov, there was no malicious intent in his art. The director has always followed the principle of responding good to evil, as he later says, "revenge with love." It should be noted that after the start of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict in 1988, Parajanov decided not to interrupt his work on the film “Ashik-Kerib” (with Muslim themes), the general shooting of which took place in Azerbaijan, although it was somehow misinterpreted in Armenia . In 1988, the Armenian government decided to build a house museum for Parajanov in Yerevan. Sergey took this news with humor and irony. He often joked that his life, as the plot of the opera La Traviata, when Alfred finally returns, Violetta dies. Unfortunately, in connection with the earthquake in 1988, the construction of the museum was completed after the death of Parajanov, in 1991. Parajanov loved to take pictures and often invented plots for his photographs. Many of his famous works are a kind of joint work of the photographer and Sergey himself. In addition, after receiving photographs, he began to cut them to create collages. The museum’s photo exhibition displays its photographs, as well as reproductions from some of its famous collages. In total, the museum has more than 1,400 exhibits. The museum's collection includes installations, complexes, drawings, dolls, and hats. Museum window displays unpublished film scripts, libretto, and various works of art created by Parajanov in prison.
