48-403: Yuri Ozerov may refer to: Yuri Ozerov (director) (1921–2001), Soviet film director Yuri Ozerov (basketball) (1928-2004), Soviet basketball player See also [ edit ] For other people with the same surname, see Ozerov [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with
96-638: A 2001 interview, he told that the battle had a profound effect on him and he swore that if he will remain alive, he would "tell the story of the great army that fought in the war." After the German surrender in May, Ozerov served in the occupied city until his discharge in October 1945, with the rank of a Major. During the war, Ozerov married a nurse, Raisa Sukhomlina, with whom he had a son, Vladimir . The two later divorced. Soon after demobilization, Ozerov resumed his studies in
144-464: A Muslim Tatar family, in Moscow. After converting to Eastern Orthodox Christianity , Nigyar was murdered by her relatives, who disapproved of the marriage. Parajanov subsequently moved to Kiev , Ukraine , where he produced a few Russian and Ukrainian language documentaries ( Dumka, Golden Hands, Natalia Uzhvy) and a handful of narrative films: Andriesh, The Top Guy, Ukrainian Rhapsody, and Flower on
192-534: A Parajanov inspired new commission in the BFI Gallery by contemporary artist Matt Collishaw ('Retrospectre'). A symposium was dedicated to Parajanov's work bringing together experts to discuss and celebrate the director's contribution to cinema and art. Sergei Iosifovich Parajanov was born on January 9, 1924 to artistically inclined ethnic Armenians Iosif Parajanov and Siranush Bejanova in Tiflis, Georgia , then part of
240-581: A concert at the Bolshoi Theater . Ozerov's first major feature film was the 1955 Son , revolving around the life of a delinquent youth in Moscow. In 1957, he directed the adventure film Kochubey , about the last days of the Civil War Cossack hero, Ivan Kochubey . The film, Ozerov's only one to be produced by Lenfilm , received the Prize for Best Musical Score in the 1959 All-Union Film Festival . In
288-470: A filmmaker. Later the influence became mutual, and he and Tarkovsky became close friends. Another influence was Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini , who Parajanov would later describe as "like a God" to him and a director of "majestic style". In 1965 Parajanov abandoned socialist realism and directed the poetic Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors , his first film over which he had complete creative control. It won numerous international awards well received by
336-498: A large collection of abstract drawings and pursued numerous other avenues of non-cinematic art, sewing more dolls and some whimsical suits. In February 1982 Parajanov was once again imprisoned, on charges of bribery, which happened to coincide with his return to Moscow for the premiere of a play commemorating Vladimir Vysotsky at the Taganka Theatre , and was effected with some degree of trickery. Despite another stiff sentence, he
384-631: A local railway college before running away to attend the Tbilisi State Conservatoire . He was later transferred to the Moscow Conservatory , where he studied alongside soprano Nina Dorliak . Parajanov left the conservatory to enroll at the directing department at what was then the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography ; he studied under the tutelage of directors Igor Savchenko and Alexander Dovzhenko . Parajanov
432-675: A report by the Committee for State Security to the Central Committee of the Ukrainian Communist party indicated their belief that Parajanov is a negative influence on his younger colleagues, as well as a key purveyor of ideologically harmful opinion. He was also deemed as someone with a desire to defect if were to travel abroad. In December 1973, he was arrested in Kyiv, and was accused of homosexuality, sodomy, and propagation of pornography. He
480-787: A story by Mikhail Lermontov . It is the story of a wandering minstrel, set in the Azerbaijani culture . Parajanov dedicated the film to his close friend Andrei Tarkovsky and "to all the children of the world". Parajanov died of Lung cancer in Yerevan , Armenia on July 20, 1990, aged 66, leaving this final work, The Confession , unfinished. It survives in its original negative as Parajanov: The Last Spring , created by his close friend Mikhail Vartanov in 1992. Federico Fellini , Tonino Guerra , Francesco Rosi , Alberto Moravia , Giulietta Masina , Marcello Mastroianni and Bernardo Bertolucci were among those who publicly mourned his death. They sent
528-468: A telegram to Russia with the following statement: "The world of cinema has lost a magician. Parajanov’s fantasy will forever fascinate and bring joy to the people of the world…”. Despite having studied film at the VGIK , Parajanov discovered his artistic path only after seeing Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky 's dreamlike first film Ivan's Childhood . Parajanov was highly appreciated by Tarkovsky himself in
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#1732854934834576-879: A whole, and third in the world at large. Artistically, there are few people in the entire world who could replace Paradanov. He is guilty – guilty of his solitude. We are guilty of not thinking of him daily and of failing to discover the significance of a master." An eclectic group of artists, actors, filmmakers and activists protested on behalf of Parajanov, calling for his immediate release. Among them were Robert De Niro , Francis Ford Coppola , Martin Scorsese , Leonid Gaidai , Eldar Ryazanov , Yves Saint Laurent , Marcello Mastroianni , Françoise Sagan , Jean-Luc Godard , François Truffaut , Luis Buñuel , Federico Fellini , Michelangelo Antonioni , Mikhail Vartanov , and Andrei Tarkovsky himself. Parajanov served four years out of his five-year sentence, and later credited his early release to
624-646: A year later. In the beginning of his career, Ozerov directed several documentaries: in 1952, he made the film In the Nikitsky Botanical Garden about the eponymous garden . During 1953, together with Sergei Gurov, he co-directed Arena of the Bold , which presented a live performance by the Soviet Union's young circus artists and starred Oleg Popov , among others. In 1954, he made At the Gala Evening , showing
672-455: Is lost", he reportedly said. However, directors such as Theo Angelopoulos , Béla Tarr and Mohsen Makhmalbaf share Parajanov's approach to film as a primarily visual medium rather than as a narrative tool. The Parajanov-Vartanov Institute was established in Hollywood in 2010 to study, preserve and promote the artistic legacies of Sergei Parajanov and Mikhail Vartanov . In 2024, marking
720-472: The Soviet Union . After moving to Ukraine and directing Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors , his first major work which diverged from socialist realism and gave him international acclaim, he would later disown and proclaim his films made before 1965 as "garbage." Parajanov subsequently directed The Color of Pomegranates , which was met with widespread acclaim among filmmakers, and is often considered one of
768-558: The greatest films ever made. Parajanov was bisexual , which exposed him to increase legal scrutiny from Soviet authorities over his personal life, his films, and political involvement surrounding Ukrainian nationalism . Nearly all of his film projects from 1965 to 1973 were banned by the Soviet film administrations, both locally in Kyiv , Yerevan and federally in the Soviet Union , many without discussion. Parajanov's films are ranked among
816-557: The 100th anniversary of Parajanov's birth, Ukrainian film maker Taras Tomenko made the documentary "A Sentimental Journey to the Parajanov Planet". The film premierd internationally at the 40th Warsaw Film Festival where it won the 3rd place in the Audience Award for documentary films. Among his projects, there also were plans for adapting Longfellow 's The Song of Hiawatha , Shakespeare 's Hamlet , Goethe 's Faust ,
864-612: The 1973 Golden Globe Award for the Best Documentary Film. In 1974, he was given the title of a People's Artist of the RSFSR. In 1977, Ozerov directed the ten-hour-long mini-series Soldiers of Freedom , theatrically released as two 220 minutes feature films, a co-production that involved most of the Eastern Bloc European countries and dealt with the exploits of their contemporary leaders, especially Leonid Brezhnev , during
912-677: The Lunacharsky Institute. In 1947, he entered the All-Union Cinematography Institute, where he studied together with Aleksandr Alov , Marlen Khutsiev , Sergei Parajanov and other future Soviet directors. During the same year, he joined the Communist Party . In 1949 he started working as an assistant-director in the Mosfilm studio. While still a student, he made his debut film, Alexander Pushkin , in 1950. He graduated
960-649: The Olympics , The Olympic Holidays and O, Sport - You're the World . For this accomplishment, he was awarded the USSR State Prize in 1981. In 1985, Ozerov directed another large-scale World War II production, the Battle of Moscow , released for the 40th Anniversary of Victory Day. The film received the 1986 All-Union Film Festival Grand Prize. In 1989, Ozerov decided to direct one more World War II film, Stalingrad . Due to
1008-654: The Russian President's award for contribution to national cinema, dying shortly after. He is buried in the Vvedenskoye Cemetery , alongside his younger brother Nikolai. His widow founded the Yuri Ozerov War Films Festival in his memory. Sergei Parajanov Sergei Iosifovich Parajanov (January 9, 1924 – July 20, 1990) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter. He is regarded by film critics, film historians, and filmmakers to be one of
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#17328549348341056-511: The Second World War. He was granted the title People's Artist of the USSR in the same year, and was a member in the jury of the 30th Cannes Film Festival and the 10th Moscow International Film Festival . In 1979, Ozerov was selected to be the chief of the Moscow 1980 Olympics Artistic Committee. He directed a series of documentary films dedicated to the games: Ballad of Sport , Farewell to
1104-464: The Soviet Union. Iosif was a merchant who owned an antique shop, trading jewelry and valuables; he was in frequent trouble with authorities, who often raided his business and seized many of his valuables due to the Soviet Union's ban on financial speculation . Because his father could not get his business legalised, Parajanov was often forced to swallow small jewelry pieces and defecate them once authorities withdrew from their search. Parajanov attended
1152-518: The Soviet authorities, who praised the film for "conveying the poetic quality and philosophical depth of Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky ’s tale through the language of cinema," and called it "a brilliant creative success of the Dovzhenko film studio ." Authorities allowed the release the film with its original Ukrainian soundtrack intact, rather than redub the dialogue into Russian for Soviet-wide release, in order to preserve its Ukrainian integrity. (Russian dubbing
1200-663: The Stone . He became fluent in Ukrainian and, in 1956, married Svitlana Ivanivna Shcherbatiuk (1938–2020), with whom he had a son in 1958. In a 1988 interview, he stated, "Everyone knows that I have three motherlands. I was born in Georgia, worked in Ukraine and I'm going to die in Armenia ." Andrey Tarkovsky 's first film, Ivan's Childhood , had an enormous impact on Parajanov's self-discovery as
1248-517: The battle for the city. The new footage was filmed in Syria. Selected material from all of Ozerov's works on World War II was compiled to create the historical mini-series Tragedy of the Century . In 1995, Ozerov produced a mini-series, The Great Commander Georgy Zhukov , consisting of all the scenes in his films that included Zhukov - in all of which he was depicted by Mikhail Ulyanov . In 2001, he received
1296-434: The best contemporary film directors, strikes with its perfection of beauty.” Parajanov was also admired by American filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola . French film director Jean-Luc Godard also stated that "In the temple of cinema, there are images, light, and reality. Sergei Parajanov was the master of that temple". Despite having many admirers of his art, his vision did not attract many followers. "Whoever tries to imitate me
1344-537: The biographical film " Voyage in Time " ("Always with huge gratitude and pleasure I remember the films of Sergei Parajanov which I love very much. His way of thinking, his paradoxical, poetical... ability to love the beauty and the ability to be absolutely free within his own vision"). In the same film Tarkovsky stated that Parajanov is one of his favorite filmmakers. Italian filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni stated that “The Color of Pomegranates by Parajanov, in my opinion one of
1392-490: The camp were repeatedly compromised by prison guards, who deprived him of materials and called him mad, their cruelty only subsiding after a statement from Moscow admitted that "the director is very talented." After his return from prison to Tbilisi, the close watch of Soviet censors prevented Parajanov from continuing his cinematic pursuits and steered him towards the artistic outlets he had nurtured during his time in prison. He crafted extraordinarily intricate collages, created
1440-465: The economical situation in the Soviet Union, he had to approach the Warner Bros. for assistance with the budget. The company agreed, but only on condition that American actors would receive major roles. The reluctant Ozerov had to cast Powers Boothe as General Chuikov . In 1993, the director used footage from Stalingrad in the film Angels of Death , that presented a sniper duel taking place during
1488-748: The efforts of the French Surrealist poet and novelist Louis Aragon , the Russian poet Elsa Triolet (Aragon's wife), and the American writer John Updike . His early release was authorized by Leonid Brezhnev , General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union , presumably as a consequence of Brezhnev's chance meeting with Aragon and Triolet at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. When asked by Brezhnev if he could be of any assistance, Aragon requested
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1536-468: The film for its allegedly inflammatory content and lack of Socialist realism , Parajanov re-edited the film and renamed it The Color of Pomegranates . Since the early 1960's, Parajanov increasingly became the subject of attention by the KGB , for a variety of political activities related to his affinity towards Ukrainian nationalism . He was an active protester following the 1965–1966 Ukrainian purge . In 1969
1584-473: The greatest filmmakers of all time. Parajanov was born to ethnically Armenian parents in Georgia . He studied at Moscow's VGIK under the tutualge of Ukrainian filmmakers Igor Savchenko and Oleksandr Dovzhenko , and began his career as professional film director in 1954. Parajanov became increasingly disenchanted of his films as well as the state sanctioned art style of socialist realism , prominent throughout
1632-542: The greatest films of all time by Sight & Sound . He won prizes at Mar del Plata Film Festival , Istanbul International Film Festival , Nika Awards , Rotterdam International Film Festival , Sitges - Catalan International Film Festival , São Paulo International Film Festival and others. A comprehensive retrospective in the UK took place in 2010 at BFI Southbank . The retrospective was curated by Layla Alexander-Garrett and Parajanov specialist Elisabetta Fabrizi who commissioned
1680-455: The main protagonist. In addition to his cinematic work, Ozerov was also a Major in the KGB 's Seventh Directorate, the department responsible for surveillance. He served as a technical officer. In early 1962, the KGB was monitoring Oleg Penkovsky . Miniature cameras were installed in flower pots on his apartment's window sills. The surveillance team suspected that Penkovsky discovered the cameras and
1728-604: The release of Parajanov, which was effected by December 1977. While he was incarcerated, Parajanov produced a large number of miniature doll-like sculptures (some of which were lost) and some 800 drawings and collages, many of which were later displayed in Yerevan , where the Sergei Parajanov Museum is now permanently located. (The museum, opened in 1991, a year after Parajanov's death, hosts more than 200 works as well as furnishings from his home in Tbilisi .) His efforts in
1776-560: The same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yuri_Ozerov&oldid=341963267 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Yuri Ozerov (director) Yuri Ozerov ( Russian : Ю́рий Никола́евич О́зеров ; 26 January 1921 – 16 October 2001)
1824-426: The same time, the Soviet authorities were planning a film in response to The Longest Day that would present the official Soviet narrative on the war. Ozerov was selected to direct the new project, the five-part series Liberation , for which he co-wrote the script. The filming lasted more than four years, from 1967 to 1971. Ozerov had to cope both the tight political supervision of the Soviet establishment and with
1872-600: The same year, Ozerov first participated in an international production: the Albanian-Soviet film Fortuna , which he co-directed with Kristaq Dhamo . Fortuna was also his first film about the Second World War, dealing with the Albanian partisans' struggle and starring Naim Frashëri . In 1962, he directed the Soviet-Czechoslovak co-production The High Road , a biographical film on Jaroslav Hašek with Josef Abrhám as
1920-643: The technical difficulties of coordinating the battle scenes, that involved 150 tanks and thousands of soldiers. Ozerov's second wife, Dilara, was the films' costumes designer. For his work on Liberation , he received the Lenin Prize and the Tbilisi All-Union Film Festival Grand Prize at 1972. Ozerov directed the first part of the documentary Visions of Eight on the Munich Olympics , entitled The Beginning . Visions of Eight won
1968-562: Was bisexual . In 1948, he was charged with illegal homosexual acts with MGB officer Nikolai Mikava in Tbilisi. He was sentenced to five years in prison and released under an amnesty after three months. In video interviews, friends and relatives contest the truthfulness of anything Parajanov was charged with; they believe his sentencing was procured through a kangaroo court due to his tendency for political retaliation and rebellious views. In 1950, Parajanov married Nigyar Kerimova, who came from
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2016-446: Was a Soviet-Russian film director and screenwriter . He directed twenty films between 1950 and 1995. Ozerov's works won him many awards, among them the title People's Artist of the USSR which was conferred upon him in 1977. Ozerov was born to Nikolai Nikolayevich Ozerov and Nadezhda Ozerova. His mother, a student of the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography , had to leave her studies when she became pregnant. Ozerov's father
2064-634: Was an acclaimed opera singer who was awarded the title People's Artist of the Russian SFSR in 1937 and taught in the Moscow Conservatory . His brother, also named Nikolai, was a tennis champion and sports commentator. After graduating from high school, Ozerov enrolled for the Lunacharsky State Institute of Theatre Arts in September 1939. A month later, he was drafted into the Red Army, where he
2112-451: Was evading them. Ozerov had personally inspected the house and decided to place other equipment in the balcony above the apartment. Penkovsky was caught and executed during 1963. During the mid-1960s, Ozerov - who was awarded the title ' Honored Artist of the RSFSR ' in 1965 - was dismayed by several World War II films made in the West, which he regarded as diminishing the role of the Red Army. At
2160-499: Was freed in less than a year, with his health seriously weakened. In 1985, the slow thaw within the Soviet Union spurred Parajanov to resume his passion for cinema. With the encouragement of various Georgian intellectuals, he created the multi-award-winning film The Legend of Suram Fortress , based on a novella by Daniel Chonkadze , his first return to cinema since Sayat-Nova fifteen years earlier. In 1988, Parajanov made another multi-award-winning film, Ashik Kerib , based on
2208-475: Was sentenced to five years in a hard labour camp. Three days before Parajanov was due to be sentenced, Andrei Tarkovsky wrote a letter to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine , asserting that "In the last ten years Sergei Parajanov has made only two films: Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors and The Colour of Pomegranates . They have influenced cinema first in Ukraine , second in this country as
2256-422: Was standard practice at that time for non-Russian Soviet films when they were distributed outside the republic of origin.) In 1969, Parajanov briefly moved to Armenia , to work on his next film, Sayat Nova . It was shot under relatively poor conditions and had a very small budget. Unlike Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, Sayat Nova was not well received by Soviet authorities, who were quick to intervene and ban
2304-506: Was trained as a signaler. When Germany invaded the Soviet Union , he held the rank of a Second Lieutenant. Ozerov participated in the Battle of Moscow and in the campaigns for Ukraine and Poland. In 1944, he underwent a staff officers' course in the Frunze Academy . While stationed in the 3rd Belorussian Front , he took part in the Battle of Königsberg as a forward observation officer . In
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