Fresh
It's one of the most unusual films I've seen, a barrage of images, music and noises, shot with such an active camera we almost need seatbelts.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
1965 · 1h 36m · N/A
Drama, History, Romance
Directed by
Sergei Parajanov
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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
Overview
In the Carpathian Mountains of 19th-century Ukraine, love, hate, life and death among the Hutsul people are as they’ve been since time began. Ivan is drawn to Marichka, the beautiful young daughter of the man who killed his father. But fate tragically decrees that the two lovers will remain apart.
Director and cast
- Sergei Parajanov Director
- Ivan Mykolaichuk as Ivan Paliychuk
- Larisa Kadochnikova as Marichka Gutenyuk
- Tatyana Bestayeva as Palagna
- Mykola Hrynko as Batag
- Spartak Bagashvili as Yurko Malfara
- Leonid Yengibarov as Miko
- Nina Alisova as Paliychuk, Ivan's Mother
- Oleksandr Hai as Petro Paliychuk
- Neonila Hnepovska as Gutenyuk
- Aleksandr Raydanov as Onufriy Gutenyuk
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
93%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Shadows was a leap in the dark like none other in Soviet film history, and a slap in the face of the officially sanctioned and artistically vacuous school of Socialist Realism.
John Patterson, L.A. Weekly
Fresh
As Parajanov's camera swirls vertiginously to capture harvest festivals and celebrations, you sense a linkage of past and present that's astounding.
Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York
Fresh
In this overwhelmingly beautiful movie, a sad, short, brutalized life is elevated to ecstatic myth.
J. Hoberman, Village Voice
Fresh
There are hallucinatory sequences in Sergei Paradzhanov's 1964 film Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors when this eruptively colorful movie feels more like a folkloric tapestry sprung to life than a film about flesh-and-blood people.
Stephen Holden, New York Times
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