Film director Georgi Paradzhanov is the last of kin

Georgy Georgievich Paradzhanov is a Russian film director, director, screenwriter, actor and artist.

Author's vision

The nephew of the director and screenwriter Sergei Paradzhanov withdraws his author's cinema. According to Paradzhanov, modern film works by other domestic filmmakers do not make a proper impression on him. He is literally oppressed by the abundance of criminal stories. "As if to say there is nothing more", - Georgy Georgievich notes. In most films there is no poetry and images, the epoch of poetic cinema has sunk into oblivion. The director, according to his confession, has long had the impression that the novelties of cinema are similar to episodes of criminal chronicles. So categorical in the assessment of contemporary Russian cinema Georgiy Paradzhanov.

Biography (briefly)

The director was born at the beginning of the last summer month of 1960 in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. The filmmaker grew up in the same house in which his uncle Sergei grew up. Together with the mother of Georgy Anna Khachaturova (maidenly Paradjanova), the education of the boy was handled by his grandmother, who gave birth and brought up Parajanov. All his childhood and youth, the future master of the director, absorbed everything that happened around him - the riot of the Caucasian winds, the smell of his native land, the fate of the people around him.

Georgiy Paradzhanov successfully completed the Tbilisi Theater Institute in 1983, in parallel in the workshop of Nodar Dumbadze, at the Institute. A. Pushkin, studying literature. Creative career George Georgievich began as a theatrical director at the local Theater of the young spectator, before radical changes in his career he managed to stage six performances.

Between 1988 and 1990, Georgiy Paradzhanov worked as an actor in the Sovremennik Theater.

During his studies at VGIK in the studio of V. Naumov he passed an internship in Rome at the Cinecittà film studio.

Currently, he is a member of the Russian Union of Cinematographers and a member of the Guild of Film Directors.

Documentary

Georgiy Paradzhanov, scriptwriter and director of four documentary films, graduated from VGIK, a course directed by his classmate, his uncle S. Paradjanov, began to make documentaries.

In 2000, the world premiere of the picture "I am a seagull!" About the tragic fate of actress V. Karavaeva. The film was highly appreciated by the cinema community of the 57th Venice Film Festival and included in the list of the 20 best European documentary works of 2000.

In 2004, Georgiy Paradzhanov presented the world with a biography of S. Paradzhanov - 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 video recordings and photographs from the life of Paradzhanov and his never-ending film Confession. The announcer's text in the tape is presented by a monologue composed of exclusive entries, letters and a literary script and not published in the movie rental.

The documentary film "The Children of Adam" was shot by the director in 2007. The film is a narrative about a very ancient and distinctive nation. Critics dubbed the project Paradzhanov impressionistic collage fragments of life and life of Kurds of Armenia. The director himself claims that he was making a movie about his childhood memory, resurrecting in memory what he had forgotten, leaving Tbilisi.

In 2010, at the author's evening of George Parajanov, the premiere of the painting "Prima" was held. The documentary tape is dedicated to the creativity and destiny of Maria Primachenko - an outstanding artist of Ukraine, who preferred the style of primitivism. This work Parajanov is a film-portrait, in which, through a story about one person, the author speaks about the role of art in the world.

In the genre of magical realism

Georgiy Paradzhanov, whose filmography contains both documentary and artistic projects, after the premiere of "Prima" decides to shoot an artistic film. According to the director, he is not a documentary. While shooting documentary projects, the director gained invaluable experience in order to apply the acquired knowledge in the game direction.

The debut film of the director "Everybody's gone ..." is a requiem for the deceased, reminiscent tape, a nostalgic journey to Georgia, a desperate attempt to restore the past reality. The movie does not have a linear, slender plot. The narrative is represented by a chain of film novels, in the center of which is the main character - the boy Harry. In his eyes, the viewer will be seen by the gentle, but if necessary, severe grandmother (Lali Badurashvili), the windy antiquarian-grandfather (David Dvalishvili), the furious lover of the pigeons Cisu (Avtandil Makharadze), the miserable and unreasonably fussy native of France, Madame Verdot (Natalia Kolyakanova), the majestic fortune-teller Nina (Medea Lordkipanidze).

Film went out in limited rental, which did not stop her from collecting a weighty bunch of prizes of various film festivals. In addition to the above picture, the director shot one of the novels entitled "Valerik" in the movie "Moscow, I Love You!" And the tape "With Autumn in the Heart" about the fate of the lyric clown of the USSR - Leonid Yengibarov.

The last of kin

Georgiy Paradzhanov, whose photo appears less and less in the media, dedicated to the film industry, currently resides in Moscow in a modest one-room apartment. He treasures the ancient chest, brought from the Tbilisi house on Kote Meskhi, the sofa left by his uncle, a table and a cupboard littered with papers. He is the last of the Parajanovs.