Évocation de la vie du poète arménien Sayat Nova, dont on situe l’existence entre 1717 et 1794 en une serie de plusieurs tableaux.

Sumptuous, otherworldly images leap from the screen in Parajanov’s ravishing experimental biopic of the great Armenian poet Sayat-Nova. Through a series of folkloric moving tableaux, the abundance of lyrical visual poetry and religious imagery led to its censorship by the Soviet authorities.