Posted on 03/19/2022 2:37:47 PM PDT by FarCenter
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, alternatively translated into English as Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors or Shadows of Our Ancestors (Ukrainian: Тіні забутих предків, romanized: Tini zabutykh predkiv), also known in English under the alternative title Wild Horses of Fire and under the mistaken title of In the Shadow of the Past,[1] is a 1965 Ukrainian film by the Georgian–Armenian filmmaker Sergei Parajanov based on the novel Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors by Ukrainian writer Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky that tells a "Romeo and Juliet tale" of young Ukrainian Hutsul lovers trapped on opposite sides of a Carpathian family blood feud.[2]
The film was Parajanov's first major work and earned him international acclaim for its rich use of costume and colour.[3] The festival program form the 1966 edition of the New York Film Festival described the film as an "avant-garde, extravagant, sumptuous saga" and a "haunting work" that combined folk-songs and atonal music with fantastic camera work.[4]
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is considered to be the most internationally heralded Ukrainian film in history,[5] and a classic of Ukrainian magical realist cinema.[6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadows_of_Forgotten_Ancestors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLZe3muQfss
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Worthwhile post, although I probably won’t watch it.
Fiddler On The Roof took place in Ukraine.
Will def watch. TY.
I first saw it in a small off-campus art theater in about ‘66.
It sort of rattled around in my memory until I finally found it on YouTube.
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