Swan Lake: The Zone (1990)

Summary: This film tells what it was like to live in the USSR with brutal reality. A convict is forced to hide within a model of a hammer and sickle. Here a tragic romance ensues between the convict and woman worker.

Genre: Drama

Director: Yuri Ilyenko

Writer: Sergei Parajanov

Runtime: 1 h 36 min

Distributor: Zeitgeist Films

Countries: Sweden, Canada, Soviet Union

Language: Russian

Domestic: $ 28,769

Ashik Kerib (1988)

Summary: A talented but poor minstrel is forced to wander throughout the world because of impossibility to be with his true love - a rich merchant's daughter.

Release Date: November 23, 1988

Genre: Drama

Directors: Sergei Parajanov

, Dodo Abashidze

Writers: Gia Badridze

, Mikhail Lermontov

Runtime: 1 h 13 min

Production: Georgian-Film

Distributor: RUSCICO

Country: Soviet Union

Language: Georgian

The Legend of Suram Fortress (1985)

Summary: A film version of a well-known Georgian folk-tale. A young boy has to be immured into the walls of a fortress in order to stop it from crumbling to pieces.

Release Date: December 03, 1986

Genre: Drama

Directors: Sergei Parajanov

, Dodo Abashidze

Writers: Daniel Chonqadze

, Vaja Gigashvili

Runtime: 1 h 28 min

Production: Georgian-Film

Country: Soviet Union

Language: Georgian

The Color of Pomegranates (1969)

Summary: The life of the Armenian poet Sayat-Nova, from childhood to death, his spiritual journey, artistic endeavors and inner conflicts within the cultural and historical context of Armenia, hailed as revolutionary by Mikhail Vartanov.

Release Date: January 27, 1982

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Director: Sergei Parajanov