Sergei Paradjanov, the renowned Armenian filmmaker, whose dazzlingly irreverent works caused an equal amount of consternation for the Soviet authorities and wonderment among his devotees, comes alive for audiences in the 2013 biopic.
Paradjanov, directed by Olena Fetisova and Serge Avedikian—who plays the man himself—was a joint Armenian, French, Georgian and Ukrainian production. Its 2013 premiere in Odessa, Ukraine, came on the eve of the 90th anniversary of the filmmaker's January 9, 1924 birth in Soviet Georgia.