Arabesques on the Pirosmani Theme (1985)
- Original title
- არაბესკები ფიროსმანის თემაზე
- Directed by
- Sergei Parajanov
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Runtime
- 25 min
- Rating
- 5.4 of 10 from 17 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
This short documentary uses tableaux and symbolic imagery to evoke the life of Georgian painter Niko Pirosmani. It presents scenes from his biography through a series of carefully composed, painterly shots.
lyricalmeditativevisual poetrycontemplativeartisticfragmentaryatmospheric
What happens
Arabeschi sul Tema Pirosmani (Arabeskebi Pirosmanis temaze) è un cortometraggio documentario del 1985 diretto da Sergej Iosifovič Paradžanov e basato sulla vita del pittore georgiano Niko Pirosmani. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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