Watch Parajanov: The Last Spring (1992) Online

Made in wartime and edited in candlelight, Mikhail Vartanov's rarely-seen masterpiece tells about his friendship with the genius Sergei Parajanov who was imprisoned by KGB "at the peak of his artistic power". Vartanov takes us back with the scenes from his censored 1969 film The Color of Armenian Land where Paradjanov is at work on his suppressed chef-d'oeuvre The Color of Pomegranates - widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time - and contrasts it with the shocking request Parajanov sent him in unpublished 1974 letters from the Soviet prisons. Vartanov's camera documents Parajanov's striking last day at work in 1990 during the making of the unfinished Confession. A monumental wordless montage - the entire sixth reel - concludes Vartanov's acclaimed documentary, which, despite the prohibitive conditions it was created in, won the admiration of many of cinema's greatest artists, including Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese. Read More

Watch Parajanov: The Last Spring online. Featuring Sergei Parajanov and Mikhail Vartanov, Parajanov: The Last Spring is classified as Documentary genre movie with an average rating across the web of 4.5. It is available for streaming online in the UK The movie was filmed in Armenia and was released on 1992. Parajanov: The Last Spring was directed by Sergei Parajanov,Mikhail Vartanov,Martiros Vartanov. Read Less