"BEING KING OF CLOWNS HE NEVER BECAME CLOWN OF KINGS"

Panorama.am
16:00 09/01/2009

Today famous Armenian film director Sergey Paradjanov’s 85th
anniversary is celebrated. Paradjanov was granted people’s artist of
Armenia and Ukraine. Artist’s fans will visit pantheon named after
Komitas to commemorate him.

Sergey Parajanov was born in Tbilisi in 1924, in the Armenian family,
that had a deep historical background. In 1946 Parajanov entered at
the Moscow institute of Cinematography. He directed "The Shadows
of our Ancestors" (1964), which at once made him one of the best
directors of the world.

The next movie, ‘The Color of Pomegranates" had brought him the world
fame. G. Kuntseyev said: "Being the king of clowns, he never became
clown of the kings."

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress