“BEING KING OF CLOWNS HE NEVER BECAME CLOWN OF KINGS”
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.”