The Legend of the Suram Fortress

UdSSR, 1984/85
Length
87 minutes
Director
David "Dodo" Abaschidse
Cast
  • Weriko Andschaparidse
  • David "Dodo" Abaschidse
  • Sofiko Tschiaureli

Content

Sergej Paradjanov recounts an old Georgian legend with his imaginative fantasy. The legend is about a fortress on the border whose walls are penetrated again and again. A fortune teller prophesies that a young warrior must be walled into the fortress to make it impenetrable. The fortune teller is the former love of a peasant who is freed by his lord and looses his wife. His son takes the prophesy upon himself, sacrifices himself and becomes a folk hero.

“I am the only Soviet director that was imprisoned by three different regimes, under Stalin, under Brezhnev and under Andropov,« says the Armenian-Georgian Filmmaker Paradjanov.

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Original title
Legenda o suramskoj kreposti