While he was unable to film The Demon from Mikhail Lermontov‘s poem, the legendary filmmaker Sergei Parajanov did make Ashik Kerib (1988) based on Lermontov’s tale.
The Demon was included in the great American magazine Film Comment in this list of the most important unproduced and and unfinished films.
Parajanov-Vartanov Institute 
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