And So Every Day

И так каждый день

Aware of the consequences of displeasing the Soviet censors, who had shelved his first two films, Vartanov documents one day in the life of postal workers in Armenia, even narrates (himself!) for the first time. Tigran Mansurian, who had scored Paradjanov’s Sayat Nova (The Colour of Pomegranates) and worked with Vartanov on The Color of Armenian Land (1969), Autumn Pastoral (1971), and Awaiting (197?), is again here. Vartanov‘s charming voiceover and unobtrusive direction, complemented by Mansurian’s playful score, resulted in a rare and unusually frank document of ordinary working class people in Soviet Armenia.