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OSCARS: UKRAINE ENTERS 'PARAJANOV' IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE RACE
hollywoodreporter.com
September 16, 2013 Monday
Vladimir Kozlov
MOSCOW -- Ukraine has nominated a biopic on Soviet-era director Sergei
Paradjanov for the Academy Award in the foreign language film category.
Paradjanov, directed by first-time feature directors Olena Fetisova
and Serge Avedikian, who starred as the renowned director, was made
as a co-production between Ukraine, Georgia and Armenia - the three
countries in which Paradjanov worked - and France.
The Euro2 million biopic had its world premiere as part of the Karlovy
Vary Film Festival's program East of West last July. It was later
screened at the Odessa International Film Festival and collected
the Golden Duke award for the best Ukrainian film. It had a general
Ukrainian release on Sept. 12.
"I believe that Paradjanov is more than a worthy Ukrainian entry in
the Oscar race," Denis Rzhavsky, a member of the Ukrainian Committee,
said in a statement. "However, what made me glad was not the selection
of that film, but the quality and quantity of its competitors. It is
already clear that in 2014, we will have premieres that will change
audiences' perceptions of the Ukrainian cinema."
Paradjanov, an ethnic Armenian born and raised in Georgia, came
to prominence with his 1965 historic drama Tini zabutykh predkiv
(Shadows of the Forgotten Ancestors), which collected the Critics
Grand Prize and the Special Jury Award at the Mar del Plata Film
Festival and was released in more than a dozen countries.
However, despite the international success, Paradjanov was soon banned
from filmmaking by Soviet ideologues and later thrown into prison on
what is widely believed to be fabricated charges and spent several
years behind bars.
After being released, he made three more features, Ambavi Suramis
tsikhitsa (The Legend of the Suram Fortress) and Ashug-Karibi (The
Hoary Legends of the Caucasus), and died in 1990.
hollywoodreporter.com
September 16, 2013 Monday
Vladimir Kozlov
MOSCOW -- Ukraine has nominated a biopic on Soviet-era director Sergei
Paradjanov for the Academy Award in the foreign language film category.
Paradjanov, directed by first-time feature directors Olena Fetisova
and Serge Avedikian, who starred as the renowned director, was made
as a co-production between Ukraine, Georgia and Armenia - the three
countries in which Paradjanov worked - and France.
The Euro2 million biopic had its world premiere as part of the Karlovy
Vary Film Festival's program East of West last July. It was later
screened at the Odessa International Film Festival and collected
the Golden Duke award for the best Ukrainian film. It had a general
Ukrainian release on Sept. 12.
"I believe that Paradjanov is more than a worthy Ukrainian entry in
the Oscar race," Denis Rzhavsky, a member of the Ukrainian Committee,
said in a statement. "However, what made me glad was not the selection
of that film, but the quality and quantity of its competitors. It is
already clear that in 2014, we will have premieres that will change
audiences' perceptions of the Ukrainian cinema."
Paradjanov, an ethnic Armenian born and raised in Georgia, came
to prominence with his 1965 historic drama Tini zabutykh predkiv
(Shadows of the Forgotten Ancestors), which collected the Critics
Grand Prize and the Special Jury Award at the Mar del Plata Film
Festival and was released in more than a dozen countries.
However, despite the international success, Paradjanov was soon banned
from filmmaking by Soviet ideologues and later thrown into prison on
what is widely believed to be fabricated charges and spent several
years behind bars.
After being released, he made three more features, Ambavi Suramis
tsikhitsa (The Legend of the Suram Fortress) and Ashug-Karibi (The
Hoary Legends of the Caucasus), and died in 1990.