Kiev Frescoes

A short film compiled by Sergei Parajanov from the screen tests for his unrealized feature film. "In 1966 I started shooting the film Kiev Frescoes. Antipenko [cinematographer] and I made film tests that were edited together. After reviewing our application, the studio management immediately closed the film. Time has turned our stuff into a film, and I want you to watch it," Sergei Parajanov said in the 1980s. Mikhail Vartanov said in 1966 that "My classmate at (the Moscow Film Institute) VGIK, Aleksandr Antipenko, brought the footage of Kyiv Frescoes that he shot for Parajanov and screened it for us in class. I immediately realized that Parajanov would be shooting his next film in this new revolutionary cinematic language". This language was materialized fully in 1969 in Parajanov's masterpiece The Color of Pomegranates.