“Probably, besides the film language suggested by Griffith and Eisenstein, the world cinema has not discovered anything revolutionary new until (Paradjanov’s) The Color of Pomegranates.”
Sergei Eisenstein, the creator of the silent masterpiece Battleship Potemkin, (written by Armenian screenwriter Nina Agadzhanova or Agadjanian) was one of the founders of the world’s oldest film school, the Moscow Film Institute VGIK, where Sergei Parajanov and Mikhail Vartanov later studied.
Here’s a portrait of Eisenstein by the great Armenian painter Martiros Saryan, who was last filmed by Vartanov in his suppressed 1969 debut The Color of Armenian Land, which also for the first time featured Parajanov and Minas.
Parajanov-Vartanov Institute 
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