| Director: | Zara Jian |
|---|---|
| Production: | AVA Films (Ani Vorskanyan), Boomerang Media.AM (Zara Jian), La Huit (Stephan Jourdain), David P. Kelly Films (David Kelly) |
| Running Time: | 110' |
| Language: | Armenian, English, Russian |
| Country: | Armenia, France |
| Main Cast: | Hakob Karapetyan, Irina Pavlova and as themselves Zara Jian, Artavazd Peleshyan, Ali Khamrayev, Lora Guerra, Levon Abrahamyan, Atom Egoyan, Emir Kusturica, Tarsem Singh, Joel Chapron, Chulpan Khamatova, Sergei Paradjanov |
| Screenplay: | Zara Jian |
| Cinematographer: | Norayr Kasper |
| Editor: | Tigran Baghinyan |
| Production Designer: | Astghik Samvelyan, Ekaterina Dzhagarova |
| Costume Designer: | Astghik Samvelyan |
| Music: | Sergio Remizov, Lorenzo Lupi, Grigor Kartashyan, Roma Film Orchestra (Eunice Cangianiello, Valentina Del Re, Nico Ciricugno, Luca Pincini, Diego Di Paolo, Goffredo Gibellini) |
| Sound: | Guillaume Dero Jocelyn Robert Arman Parsamyan Jean-Marc Schick |
| Visual Effects: | Romain Pierrat, Vahram Manukyan |
Cinema
“I will revenge this world with love” S. Paradjanov
Venice Classics
Synopsis
Unfolding global events prompt the author of the film to leave the country where she lives and works. Returning home to Armenia to search for a solution, she seeks out an example-setting icon who can show us the way forward. The museum dedicated to Sergei Paradjanov becomes a place of inspiration, from which there can be no return to toxic reality.
Director's statement
From Sergei Paradjanov to the present day.
Dedicated to the centenary of the most free, world-famous director and artist in captivity.
One of the main messages of this film is that regardless of world chaos and geopolitical intrigues, everyone should continue their work without becoming an instrument of a toxic reality. Paradjanov’s story proves this truth, and his example can inspire and guide today’s artists in their own journeys to truth. Through the life and work of Paradjanov, clarifying and interpreting his theme of human freedom, despite imprisonment – where freedom is limited both by the borders of the totalitarian state and by the barbed wire of the camp fence, we will trace the phantasmagorical repetition of the events of Paradjanov’s life and era, with the present.
A search for common ideas, goals and solutions, with heroes from different barricades, but a shared love and recognition for Paradjanov.
production/distribution
PRODUCTION 1: AVA Films LLC - Ani Vorskanyan
3 Marshal Baghramyan str.
0019, Yerevan, Armenia
Tel. 374 91227995
info.avafilms@gmail.com
PRODUCTION 2: Boomerang Media.AM LLC - Zara Jian
30, Davitashen 3-rd block
0054, Yerevan, Armenia
Tel. 374 33712717
boomerangmedia.am@gmail.com
PRODUCTION 3: LA HUIT – Stéphane Jourdin
218bis, rue de Charenton
75012, Paris, France
Tel. 33 33663609622
stephane.jourdain@lahuit.fr
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: David P. Kelly Films- David Kelly
6 Southwood Avenue
Highgate
London N6 5RY
UK
Tel: +44 (0) 20 8341 9888
infodpkellyfilms@btinternet.com
PRESS OFFICE: PREMIER- Paul Ockelford
2 – 4 Bucknall Street
London
WC2H 8LA
UK
Tel: +44 (0)207 292 8330
withlove@premiercomms.com
