Sergei Parajanov – Tini zabutykh predkiv aka Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965)
A timeless Carpathian story – the young Ivan falls in love with the daughter of his father’s killer among the Hutsul people of Ukraine.
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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors has often been described as a Carpathian Romeo and Juliet – that is, if Romeo had the tenacity to live after his beloved’s death. Sergei Paradjanov prefaces the tragic tale set in the Carpathian mountains as the land “forgotten by God and men”, and from the austerity of the environment, it is evident that survival comes at a high price. In essence, the story is incidental to the observations of daily peasant life: the Orthodox order of mass, the rites of spring, the rhythm of the sickle cutting the fields.
Paradjanov’s startling camerawork is mesmerizing, richly symbolic, and highly original. The tall, thin trees (shot upward), strips of cloth drying in the field, and Ivan’s raft create an exaggerated linearity, a sense of continuity, that provides a paradox to the brevity of their existence, and also symbolizes the eternity of true love. Furthermore, the pervasive religious images in the film: Marichka’s crucifix, the lamb grazing at a cross grave marker, Marichka’s apparition against the window crossbrace, and The Pieta epilogue, are transfigurations of the purity of love. The color composition is bizarre and unnatural: pale, washed, glacial, almost monochromatic hues, infused with jarring touches of red and yellow (note the saturation of red at scene changes). The odd color palette suggests emotional incongruence – a love that cannot materialize – an unrequited passion. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is a visionary film, an homage to the dignity of human struggle, and a testament to the inexorable power of destiny.
Tini.zabutykh.predkiv.AKA.Shadows.of.Forgotten.Ancestors.1964.576p.BluRay.DD5.1.x264-SPECTRE.mkv
General
Container: Matroska
Runtime: 1 h 35 min
Size: 2.65 GiB
Video
Codec: x264
Resolution: 766x576
Aspect ratio: 4:3
Frame rate: 23.976 fps
Bit rate: 3 515 kb/s
BPP: 0.332
Audio
#1: Ukrainian 5.1ch AC-3 @ 448 kb/s
Language(s):Ukrainian
Subtitles:English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Japanese
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