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Made in wartime and edited in candlelight, Mikhail Vartanov's rarely-seen masterpiece tells about his friendship with the genius Sergei Parajanov who was imprisoned by KGB "at the peak of his artistic power". Vartanov takes us back with the scenes from his censored 1969 film The Color of Armenian Land where Paradjanov is at work on his suppressed chef-d'oeuvre The Color of Pomegranates - widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time - and contrasts it with the shocking request Parajanov sent him in unpublished 1974 letters from the Soviet prisons. Vartanov's camera documents Parajanov's striking last day at work in 1990 during the making of the unfinished Confession - the original camera negative of which survives in Parajanov: The Last Spring (1992) - as Parajanov comments on this cherished autobiographical work. A monumental wordless montage - the entire sixth reel - concludes Vartanov's acclaimed documentary, his final film, and his most important work, which, despite ...

Mikhail Vartanov arrived in United States with only one possession - the single 35mm print in existence of Parajanov: The Last Spring (1992). National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. held the film's American premiere. Francis Ford Coppola later wrote that the film "exemplifies the power of art over any limitations."

Made the list of the most interesting Soviet documentaries (1926-1996) compiled by the Russian film historian L. Dzhulay. Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese also praised the film in writing.

Holds the record of winning the first and the only Russian Academy of Cinema Arts Award for a film made in Armenia; the Russian Academy Award is the top professional film honor (in the region of the former Soviet countries). Tonino Guerra, the screenwriter of Federico Fellini and Michelangelo Antonioni masterpieces, attended the Russian premiere of Parajanov: The Last Spring (1992) and later praised the film in writing.

Parajanov: The Last Spring (1992) includes the original camera negative of Sergei Paradjanov's last unfinished film, Khostovanank (1990), and turned out to be the last film made by Mikhail Vartanov too.

The final installment in Mikhail Vartanov's documentary trilogy, which also includes Tsvet armyanskoy zemli (1969) and Minas: Rekviem (1989)

A bootleg was illegally screened in Budapest, Hungary on 12 October 1997.

Actress Sofiko Chiaureli, Jean Vigo's daughter (the film critic) Luce Vigo, and Jean Carzou's son (the author) Jean-Marie Carzou, attended a European screening of Parajanov: The Last Spring (1992) that was one of Mikhail Vartanov's last public appearances.

A private screening of Parajanov: The Last Spring (1992) was organized for Allen Ginsberg by Jonas Mekas in 1995 at the Anthology Film Archives. During the screening Ginsberg shed a tear.

Mikhail Vartanov didn't witness the first retrospective and exhibition of his films and art which was held at the Busan International Film Festival merely 3 years after the director's passing.