THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATE

THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATE (SAYAT NOVA), 1968
Soviet Union | 35mm, Color, 79’ | Armenian
Director: Sergei Paradjanov
Cast: Sofiko Chiaureli, Melkon Aleksanyan, Vilen Galstyan

The Color of Pomegranate is an extraordinary film that blends the story of Armenian poet Sayat Nova’s life with his poetry and relates both through symbols and allegories in a surrealistic world in which neither passion, nor fear, nor torment are ever lacking. This masterpiece by the Soviet Armenian film director Sergei Paradjanov excels in its masterful ability to dispel all sense of time and space while many of its specific details will remain transfixed in your mind forever.