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Filmmaker · Ukraine

Sergei Parajanov

Died in 1990

Sergei Parajanov was born on 9 January 1924 in Tbilisi, into an Armenian family of antique dealers. A pupil in Ihor Savchenko's workshop at the Moscow film school, he was sent in 1951 to the Kyiv studio, where he first made documentaries and commissioned work. Accused of Ukrainian nationalism and homosexuality, he received five years in a strict-regime camp in 1973. Released on 30 December 1977 after an international campaign, and banned from residing in Ukraine, he settled in Tbilisi. He died in Yerevan on 20 July 1990.

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