Antipenko

Aleksandr Antipenko

“My classmate at (the Moscow Film Institute) VGIK, Aleksandr Antipenko, brought the footage of Kyiv Frescoes that he had shot for  Parajanov and screened it for us. I immediately realized that Parajanov would be shooting his next film in this new revolutionary cinematic language”

— Mikhail Vartanov

Parajanov and Alexander Antipenko (Александр Антипенко)

Parajanov-Vartanov Institute