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18 directors, 18 novels, 18 short stories about Moscow...
Film devoted to director Sergei Parajanov. The film is designed as a confession of the director. There are pictures of various episodes of his life, while shooting, at his home, in prison... The commentary comes in the form of a monologue consisting of excerpts from letters, notes and scripts of his unfinished film The Confession.
Narration about the life of the amateur Ukrainian artist Maria Primachenko on behalf of the "great old woman" herself. Biography of the era through the prism of its amazing fate. Talent and boundless artistic imagination. Primachenko's works are her personal way to invent and see the vast world without leaving the small village where she spent her whole life.
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Valentina Karavayeva had her career ruined when her face was injured in a car crash. Weaving scenes from Russian war classics, Valentina’s personal soliloquies and contemporary footage, director Paradzhanov has created a wonderfully stylish portrait of a quintessential romantic artist.
Childhood memories play on the mind of the central character, Garry. Many years on, he returns to his native town. Everything feels alien and strange. Our hero comes back to recover his memories, the good ones and the bad ones, the pleasant ones and the painful ones. Will the old fortune-teller Nina, a well-known dream gatherer in the city, be able to set an already grownup man free of the chains of the past which had become unbearable by that time? Or will our hero, Garry alleviate her life by discovering his freedom?
