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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
Drama, Romance - 1965
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
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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.
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Runtime:
96 min
Release date:
18 Oct 1965
Country:
SU
Languages:
Ukrainian
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
2 wins & 2 nominations

Top Critics Reviews

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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,
7 Mar 2008
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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,
21 Feb 2008
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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,
18 Jan 2008
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In this overwhelmingly beautiful movie, a sad, short, brutalized life is elevated to ecstatic myth.
– J. Hoberman,
Village Voice,
30 Oct 2007
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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,
20 May 2003
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