Sergei Parajanov is an extremely extraordinary person, starting from his origin (in the encyclopedic dictionary he is listed as “Georgian and Ukrainian director of Armenian origin”) and ending with his entire life. He burst into world cinema with the film “Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors” in the mid-1960s, and since then they haven’t stopped talking about him. Eccentric, unpredictable, shocking, Parajanov did not want and could not live “by the rules.” It is clear that many did not like this. As the director himself said, the authorities cut him out of life for 15 years - they either put him in prison or simply did not allow him to work. And yet he survived and continued to create.