In his rarely-seen and renowned documentary, made under the prohibitive conditions of only one hour daily quota of electricity in a war-torn and blockaded Armenia, Mikhail Vartanov tells of his imprisoned friend, the genius Sergei Parajanov, who was persecuted by KGB at the peak of his artistic power. Vartanov takes us back with scenes from his shelved 1969 film Cvet Armjanskoj Zemli ( The Color of Armenian Land) where Parajanov is at work on his suppressed chef-d’oeuvre The Colour of Pomegranates, as well as unpublished letters Parajanov wrote to Vartanov from prison, and Parajanov’s striking last day at work in 1990 during the making of the unfinished Confession.“Parajanov’s dreams, his farewell to the characters of his films, who along with thousands of fans see him off to the last journey. A dove emerges from within the grave and flies off towards the immortality.”

Martiros Vartanov