A masterwork banned in it’s time, this breathtaking fusion of poetry, ethnography, and cinema from Sergei Parajanov’s weaves a tapestry of Armenian culture through the story of eighteenth-century troubadour Sayat-Nova.

The movie will be preceded by a screening of the short animated film Tale of Tales by Yuri Norstein (1972).

This is the second part of our screening series Eastern Bloc Block, celebrating artists from Ukraine and former Soviet states.