Parajanov A Ticket to Eternity

Documentary about the life of Sergei Parajanov a prominent Sovietera filmmaker who was active in Ukraine Georgia and Armenia and was persecuted by the communist government for his views on the pretext of his homosexuality which was a crime in the USSR The centerpiece of this documentary is Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors a 1965 movie directed by Parajanov that awakened the Ukrainian national consciousness which had been suppressed by decades of Soviet rule