Легенда о Сурамской крепости, ამბავი სურამის ციხისა
PARAJANOV.com | The Legend of Suram Fortress
Sergei Parajanov‘s Legend of Suram Fortress (correct spelling is Surami), his first film after the prison, released in 1984, is based on a Georgian folk-tale. A fortune teller (portrayed by Sofiko Chiaureli‘s mother Veriko Anjaparidze) predicts that a man must be immured into the walls of a fortress in order to stop it from crumbling. Mikhail Vartanov‘s interview with Parajanov for the occasion was published in the legendary French magazine Cahiers du Cinema. In 1987, the film received the Best Innovative Film Award at the prestigious Rotterdam Film Festival. This helped lift the Iron Curtain for Parajanov and he was able to travel to Rotterdam in 1988. There he made the list of the 20 Directors of the Future.
Parajanov-Vartanov Institute 
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