Sergei Parajanov

The son of Armenians, he was born in Georgia, USSR, in 1924. He studied at  Moscow’s State Institute of Cinematography, and since he began directing in 1954, he made more than fifteen titles, such as Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965) and The Legend of Suram Fortress (1985; awarded at the Rotterdam Film Festival). He died in 1990, at 66.