Yuri Mgoyan

An absorbing portrait of one of the most colorful and revered figures in world cinema, 'Paradjanov: A Requiem' offers an affectionate and insightful look at the tumultuous career of the late Sergei Paradjanov; artist, dissident, romantic and iconoclast.

Achik Kérib est un artiste. Poète et musicien de talent, ce jeune homme désargenté chante les exploits des preux. Il tombe éperdument amoureux de la belle Magoul-Méguérie, fille d'un marchand aisé. Cependant, pour lui accorder la main de sa douce enfant, ce dernier ordonne à Achik de faire fortune à son tour, sans quoi Magoul-Méguérie en épouserait un autre. Le poète dispose pour cela de mille jours et mille nuits…

The Confession (1990) survives in Parajanov: The Last Spring (1992) in its original camera negative. It remained unfinished due to the death of Sergei Parajanov. The Confession (1990) was his favorite screenplay, which was written in the 1960s and was his film-memory of the childhood, student years, marriage, imprisonment and more as the fantasist Parajanov perceived it. Parajanov gifted the screenplay to Mikhail Vartanov, made a drawing on the cover and wrote: "The Confession will only be made by a director born in 1924 in Tiflis, Georgia." He predicted that he would not finish it.