Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Parajanov, 1964)

SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS (Tini zabutykh predkiv)

Sergei Parajanov, 1964 USSR



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This is the just released to DVD version from Kino International films. The video quality here is much better -- basically remastered.



What you are downloading here is the compressed DVD with all its special features including a 39 minute documentary comparing Andrei Tarkovsky and Sergei Paradjanov.



Spoken language is Ukrainian, but I selected Russian here because there were no other options. Texted languages are English, French, and Spanish.



Stats:

Filesize - 4,680,839,168 bytes (4.35 GB)

Runtime - 92 min.

Aspect Ratio - 1.33:1



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"Adapted from a novel by Ukrainian writer M. Kotsyubinsky, Sergei Paradjanov's extraordinary merging of myth, history, poetry, ethnography, dance, and ritual (1964) remains one of the supreme works of the Soviet sound cinema, and even subsequent Paradjanov features have failed to dim its intoxicating splendors. Set in the harsh and beautiful Carpathian Mountains, the movie tells the story of a doomed love between a couple belonging to feuding families, Ivan and Marichka, and of Ivan's life and marriage after Marichka's death. The plot is affecting, but it serves Paradjanov mainly as an armature to support the exhilarating rush of his lyrical camera movements (executed by master cinematographer Yuri Illyenko), his innovative use of nature and interiors, his deft juggling of folklore and fancy in relation to pagan and Christian rituals, and his astonishing handling of color and music. A film worthy of Dovzhenko, whose poetic vision of Ukrainian life is frequently alluded to." -- Jonathan Rosenbaum



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Credits:

Starring Ivan Mikolajchuk, Larisa Kadochnikova, Tatyana Bestayeva, Spartak Bagashvili, Nikolai Grinko, and Leonid Yengibarov

Production Design Mikhail Rakovsky and G. Yakutovich

Costume Design Lidiya Bajkova

Editing M. Ponomarenko

Cinematography Viktor Bestayev and Yuri Ilyenko

Original Music by Miroslav Skorik

Written by Ivan Chendej and Sergei Paradjanov

From the story by Mikhaylo Kovsyubinskiy

Assistant Director David Abashidze

Directed by Sergei Pardjanov





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