Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
Full of arresting chiaroscuro images, Paradjanov’s only monochrome film plays like a noir thriller. Set in a mining town in the Donets Basin, it centres on a clash (allegorical?) between the political establishment and a religious cult which infiltrates the community.
Full of arresting chiaroscuro images, Paradjanov’s only monochrome film plays like a noir thriller. Set in a mining town in the Donets Basin, it centres on a clash (allegorical?) between the political establishment and a religious cult which infiltrates the community.