Sergei Parajanov’s THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES (1969)

7th House is proud to present visionary filmmaker Sergei Parajanov’s THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES (1969), a landmark of poetic, non-narrative cinema and one of the most visually arresting works ever committed to film.

A breathtaking fusion of poetry, ethnography, and cinema, Parajanov’s masterwork overflows with unforgettable images and sounds. In a series of meticulously composed tableaux that blur the tactile and the abstract, the film revives the splendors of Armenian culture through the life of the eighteenth-century troubadour Sayat-Nova—charting his intellectual, artistic, and spiritual evolution not through conventional narrative, but through a procession of iconographic visions. With only the sparsest use of dialogue, Parajanov achieves the remarkable feat of translating poetry almost entirely into pure visual language.

At once austere and sensuous, earthly and sacred, THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES unfolds like a living manuscript—its symbols drawn from folklore, ritual, and memory, its meanings as elusive as they are deeply felt. In departing radically from the socialist realism that dominated Soviet cinema, Parajanov crafted a work of such daring originality that authorities suppressed and re-edited it upon release, with early audiences encountering it only in altered, underground forms.

This presentation restores the film to a version closest to Parajanov’s original intent—allowing its full visual and sonic majesty to resound. A cornerstone of world cinema and a work of inexhaustible beauty, THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES remains a singular meditation on art, cultural memory, and the mysteries of the inner life.

Join us to experience this visionary work as it unfolds across the canvas of the big screen.

Dir. Sergei Parajanov, 1969, 78 mins, Soviet Union, Armenian w/ English Subtitles, Unrated Digital.

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