Georgy Georgievich Parajanov - Russian film director, director, screenwriter, actor and artist.
Author's vision
The nephew of the director and film playwright Sergei Parajanov makes his own movie. According to Parajanov, contemporary film works by other domestic directors do not make a proper impression on him. He is literally depressed by the abundance of criminal plots. “As if there is nothing more to say,” notes Georgi Georgievich. In most films there is no poetry and images, the era of poetic cinema has sunk into oblivion. According to him, the director has long had the impression that movie novelties are similar to episodes of criminal chronicles. Georgy Parajanov is so categorical in his assessment of contemporary Russian cinema.
Biography (briefly)
The director was born at the beginning of the last summer month of 1960 in the capital of Georgia - the city of Tbilisi. The filmmaker grew up in the same house in which his uncle Sergei matured. Together with his mother, Georgy Anna Khachaturova (nee Parajanova), the upbringing of the boy was his grandmother, who gave birth and raised S. Parajanova. All his childhood and youth, the future director of directing absorbed everything that was happening around him - the riot of Caucasian winds, the smell of his native land, the fate of the people around him.
Georgy Parajanov in 1983 successfully graduates from the Theater Institute of Tbilisi, in parallel in the workshop of Nodar Dumbadze, at the Institute named after A.S. Pushkin, studying literature. Georgy Georgievich began his creative career as a stage director at the local Young Spectator Theater, and before the radical changes in his career he managed to stage six performances.
Between 1988 and 1990 Georgy Parajanov worked as an actor in the Sovremennik Theater.
While studying at VGIK in the workshop of V. Naumov, he completed an internship-practice in Rome at the Cinecittà film studio.
He is currently a member of the Union of Cinematographers of the Russian Federation and a member of the Guild of Filmmakers.
Documentary
Georgy Parajanov, scriptwriter and director of four documentaries, graduated from VGIK, the direction course directed by his uncle S. Parajanov, started shooting documentaries.
In 2000, the world premiere of the painting "I am a Seagull!" about the tragic fate of actress V. Karavaeva. The film was praised by the film community of the 57th Venice Film Festival and is included in the list of 20 best European documentaries of 2000.
In 2004, Georgy Parajanov introduced the world to a biography of S. Parajanov - his uncle, one of the greatest filmmakers of the twentieth century. The premiere took place at the 57th Cannes Film Festival. The documentary tape is a collage of unique videos and photographs from the life of Parajanov and his unfinished last movie "Confession". The announcer’s text in the tape is presented in a monologue made up of exclusive recordings, letters and a literary script that never came out for rent.
The documentary "Children of Adam" was shot by the director in 2007. The film is a story of a very ancient distinctive nation. Critics dubbed Parajanov’s project an impressionistic collage of fragments of the life and life of the Kurds of Armenia. The director himself claims that he made a movie about his childhood memory, recalling what he forgot about when he left Tbilisi.
In 2010, at the evening of Georgy Parajanov, the premiere of the painting "Prima" was held. The documentary is dedicated to the work and fate of Maria Primachenko, an outstanding artist of Ukraine, who preferred the style of primitivism. This work of Parajanov is a portrait film in which, through a story about one person, the author talks about the role of art in the world.
In the genre of magic realism
Georgy Parajanov, whose filmography contains both documentary and art projects, after the premiere of "Prima" decides to shoot an artistic film. According to the director, he is not a documentary at all. Filming documentary projects, the director gained invaluable experience in order to apply the acquired knowledge in game direction afterwards.
The director’s debut feature film “Everybody Left ...” is a requiem for the departed, a memory tape, a nostalgic trip to Georgia, a desperate attempt to restore former reality. Cinema does not have a linear, harmonious plot. The narrative is represented by a chain of movie novels, in the center of which is the main character - the boy Harry. Through his eyes, the viewer will see a tender, but if necessary severe grandmother (Lali Badurashvili), a windy antiquarian-grandfather (David Dvalishvili), a frantic lover of pigeons Cisu (Avtandil Makharadze), a miserable and unreasonably fussy native of France, Madame Verdo (Natalya Kolyavukuyanova) (Medea Lordkipanidze).
The film was released in limited rental, which did not stop her from collecting a weighty bunch of prizes from various film festivals. In addition to the picture described above, the director shot one of the short stories entitled “Valerik” in the movie “Moscow, I Love You!” and the tape "With Autumn in the Heart" about the fate of the lyrical clown of the USSR - Leonid Yengibarov.
Last of a kind
Georgy Parajanov, whose photo appears less and less in the media dedicated to the film industry, currently lives in Moscow in a modest one-room apartment. He reverently keeps an ancient chest brought from a Tbilisi house on Kot Meskhi, a sofa left from his uncle, a table and a sideboard littered with papers. He is the last of the Parajanovs.