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    PARADZHANOV EXHIBITION IN ST. PETERSBURG

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    MOSCOW, May 18 (RIA Novosti) - A Web site featuring museum exhibitions
    in Russia (www.museum.ru) announced the opening of an art exhibition
    on prominent Armenian filmmaker Sergei Paradzhanov (1924-1990) in
    the St. Petersburg State Ethnography Museum on June 8.

    The exhibition features 60 drawings, collages, hats, and dolls from
    the Paradzhanov Museum in Yerevan.

    Paradzhanov was born to an Armenian family in Tbilisi. He graduated
    from the Cinematography Institute in Moscow. He was hailed as one
    of the world's best directors for his movies Shadows of Forgotten
    Ancestors (1964) and Color of the Pomegranate (1969). He won over
    30 awards at international film festivals, including Mar del Plata
    (1964), Tel Aviv, Munich, Constantinople, and Moscow.

    Paradzhanov wrote a number of interesting scripts that were rejected
    by Communist Party leaders, while the filmmaker suffered under the
    cruelty of the Soviet system. He was not allowed to shoot movies for
    15 years. In 1973 he was arrested on fabricated charges and spent
    five years in prison. Despite these circumstances, he continued to
    create works of art. For example, he made figurines from bread and
    sent them to his friends.

    Famous cultural figures, including Lilya Brik, the wife of the
    great proletarian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, campaigned for his early
    release. Paradzhanov was set free a year earlier in 1977.
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