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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

Movie · 1964 · 95 min

A visually intoxicating, folkloric plunge into grief and memory, where colour, music and dreamlike camera work overwhelm narrative logic.

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1965 film by Sergei Parajanov
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Year
1964
Runtime
95 min
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
  • romanticstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • grief
  • love
  • obsession
  • family
  • death
Places
  • countryside
  • small town
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror3
Humour1
Realism4
Romance6
Tension5
Darkness7
Complexity8
Emotional weight9

Details

Genres
drama, romance, art
Directed by
Sergei Parajanov
Written by
Sergei Parajanov, Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi, Ivan Chendeĭ
Starring
Nikolai Grinko, Ivan Mykolaichuk, Leonid Yengibarov, Larisa Kadochnikova, Nina Alisova, Tatyana Bestayeva
Music
Myroslav Skoryk
Cinematography
Yuri Ilyenko
Runtime
95 min
Country
Soviet Union
Languages
Russian, Ukrainian

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