Color of Pomegranate (Sayat Nova) - Նռան Գույնը (Սայաթ Նովա) Parajanov, 1969 HD Best Quality Armeni

The Color of Pomegranates is a biography of the Armenian ashug Sayat-Nova (King of Song) that attempts to reveal the poet&life visually and poetically rather than literally. The film is presented with little dialogue using active tableaux which depict the poet&life in chapters: Childhood, Youth, Prince&Court (where he falls in love with a tsarina), The Monastery, The Dream, Old Age, The Angel of Death and Death.[3] There are sounds and music and occasional singing but dialogue is rare.[4] Each chapter is indicated by a title card and framed through both Sergei Parajanov&imagination and Sayat Nova&poems. Actress Sofiko Chiaureli notably plays six roles in the film, both male and female.[5] According to Frank Williams, Parajanov&film celebrates the survival of Armenian culture in face of oppression and persecution, "There are specific images that are highly charged—blood-red juice spilling from a cut pomegranate into a cloth and forming a stain in the shape of the boundaries of the ancient Kingdom of Armenia; dyers lifting hanks of wool out of vats in the colours of the national flag, and so on"