Pamet zadetov predkov
USSR,
1964, 100 min
Shown in 1965 / 1976
CREDITS
- dir
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Sergei Parajanov
- scr
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Sergei Parajanov, Ivan Chendej
- cam
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Victor Ilienko
- editor
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M. Ponomarenko
- mus
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Miroslav Skorik
- cast
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Larissa Kadochnikova, Tatiana Bestaeva, Ivan Nikolaichuk, Spartak Bagashvily
- source
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Sovexportfilm
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COMMENTS
Screened in 1976 as part of a retrospective of Festival films on the event's 20th anniversary, as chosen by Paine Knickerbocker.
OTHER
A robust, colorful panorama of life in the villages of Carpathia during the 19th century. All of the customs involving birth, marriage and death are woven into this episodic account of a young man who marries without love after the death of his true sweetheart. The new wife seeks aid from rituals of witchcraft and the advances of an ominous soothsayer, while the emotional atmosphere becomes more and more enriched for the spectator with song, celebrations and folklore. There is a constant interweaving of the past and the world of occult visions while the youthful director, Parajanov, uses his view of life as a means of illustrating a dream world of old Russia in broad camera flourishes, as alive and uncontrollable as the people within it.
—Albert Johnson
FACTOID #147
The Coppola clan (Francis, Eleanor, Sofia and Roman) is the family with the most filmmakers represented at the Festival. Films screened include Apocalypse Now (1990); One from the Heart (1990); Lick the Star (1998); The Virgin Suicides (2000); CQ (2002); and On the Set of CQ (2002). (And that’s not even counting onscreen appearances by cousins Nic Cage and Jason Schwartzman.)
