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Filmmaker · Armenia

Sergei Parajanov

Died in 1990

Sergei Parajanov was born in Tiflis on 9 January 1924 into an Armenian family; his father dealt in antiques. After studying singing at the conservatories of Tbilisi and Moscow, he entered the Moscow film institute, then worked at the Dovzhenko studio in Kiev. Arrested in Kiev in December 1973 and sentenced to five years in a camp, he was released on 30 December 1977, after Aragon had pleaded his cause with Brezhnev, with a ban on living in the large cities. Named People's Artist of Armenia and of Ukraine in 1990, he died in Yerevan on 20 July 1990.

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