Parajanov Sergei Iosifovich

Main article: Cinema of Russia

Biography

On December 17, 1973, during a visit to his son with typhoid fever in Kyiv, director Sergei Parajanov was arrested and placed in Lukyanovskaya prison. Parajanov was charged with "seducing men" and "organizing a brothel of debauchery."

When Parajanov was imprisoned, M. Antonioni, Federico Fellini and Tonino Guerra raised 40 thousand dollars (a huge amount at that time) and transferred to Soyuzkino with a request to improve the conditions of his stay in the camp. Soyuzkino rejected the gift: "We all have to sit in the same conditions."

Nevertheless, Fellini constantly sent Parajanov parcels with groceries. The head of the camp began to ask: who is this Federico?! Parajanov answered with a blue eye: "This is actually Fedor, my brother. As early as October, he ended up in Italy with our revolutionary grandmother... And even the surname took it - Fellini, which in Italian means "indestructible." "

And when pencils were taken from him and forbidden to draw, he scratched the profiles of great people on the covers from kefir, poured resin and made such "Parajanov medals."

One of his crafts with Pushkin's profile came to Fellini, and he made it a silver medal, which became the main award at the Rimini Film Festival...

Mastroianni, Sophia Loren and Milos Foreman received it.

Thalers, 1974-1977. Made from aluminium foil milk caps, Parajanov cut them out with his nails. The one at the top right was used at the Golden Apricot Film Festival.