Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors

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Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors

film by Paradzhanov [1964]

Also known as: “Teni zabytykh predkov”, “Tini zabutykh predkiv”(Show More)

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Sergey Yosifovich Paradzhanov
…was Teni zabytykh predkov (1964; Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors), a richly impressionistic fantasy based on a novella by Mykhaylo Kotsyubysky with a Ukrainian setting. Although it won 16 international awards, including the grand prize at the 1965 Mar del Plata Festival in Argentina, his overt rejection of the official…
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…was Teni zabytykh predkov (1964; Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors), a richly impressionistic fantasy based on a novella by Mykhaylo Kotsyubysky with a Ukrainian setting. Although it won 16 international awards, including the grand prize at the 1965 Mar del Plata Festival in Argentina, his overt rejection of the official…
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History of film
Russia, eastern Europe, and Central Asia
…was Tini zabutykh predkiv (1964; Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors), a hallucinatory retelling of a Ukrainian folk legend of ravishing formal beauty. Tarkovsky created a body of work whose seriousness and symbolic resonance had a major impact on world cinema (Andrey Rublev, 1966; Solaris, 1971; Zerkalo [Mirror], 1974; Stalker, 1979; Nostalghia…
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…was Tini zabutykh predkiv (1964; Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors), a hallucinatory retelling of a Ukrainian folk legend of ravishing formal beauty. Tarkovsky created a body of work whose seriousness and symbolic resonance had a major impact on world cinema (Andrey Rublev, 1966; Solaris, 1971; Zerkalo [Mirror], 1974; Stalker, 1979; Nostalghia…
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