Legend of the Suram Fortress (1984)
(Legenda Suramskoi Kreposti)
Country: USSR
Technical: col 87m
Director: Sergo Paradjanov, Dodo Abashidze
Cast: Venerik'o Andzhaparidze, Dodo Abashidze
Synopsis:
Lovers are walled up inside a fortress to protect it from enemy attack.
Review:
An extremely elliptical narrative is told through a succession of tableaux, mostly eschewing close-up but adopting a range of incongruous techniques such as jump cuts, fish-eye lenses and the intrusion of the present day (the shots on the Black Sea shore have oil tankers on the horizon). There is a great deal of cultural and ethnographic detail here, requiring DVD commentary, but the use of landscape is breathtaking.
(Legenda Suramskoi Kreposti)
Country: USSR
Technical: col 87m
Director: Sergo Paradjanov, Dodo Abashidze
Cast: Venerik'o Andzhaparidze, Dodo Abashidze
Synopsis:
Lovers are walled up inside a fortress to protect it from enemy attack.
Review:
An extremely elliptical narrative is told through a succession of tableaux, mostly eschewing close-up but adopting a range of incongruous techniques such as jump cuts, fish-eye lenses and the intrusion of the present day (the shots on the Black Sea shore have oil tankers on the horizon). There is a great deal of cultural and ethnographic detail here, requiring DVD commentary, but the use of landscape is breathtaking.
(Legenda Suramskoi Kreposti)
Country: USSR
Technical: col 87m
Director: Sergo Paradjanov, Dodo Abashidze
Cast: Venerik'o Andzhaparidze, Dodo Abashidze
Synopsis:
Lovers are walled up inside a fortress to protect it from enemy attack.
Review:
An extremely elliptical narrative is told through a succession of tableaux, mostly eschewing close-up but adopting a range of incongruous techniques such as jump cuts, fish-eye lenses and the intrusion of the present day (the shots on the Black Sea shore have oil tankers on the horizon). There is a great deal of cultural and ethnographic detail here, requiring DVD commentary, but the use of landscape is breathtaking.