# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sergei-parajanov
# Generated: 2026-08-31T23:27:42.404Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sergei-parajanov"
name: "Sergei Parajanov"
slug: "sergei-parajanov"
description: "Soviet director who turned away from state-approved realism and made films so symbolic and poetic that authorities banned nearly every project he attempted for eight years — yet still produced work filmmakers call among the greatest ever made."
tagline: "Soviet Armenian and Georgian film director (1924-1990)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%D5%8D%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%A3%D5%A5%D5%B5_%D5%93%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%A1%D5%BB%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%B8%D5%BE.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1924-01-09"
deathDate: "1990-07-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           58.08
  momentum:             2.900259372789436
  historical:           24.723492
  currentAttention:     16.11255207105242
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
tags:
  - name: "Actors"
    slug: "actors"
  - name: "Actor"
    slug: "actor"
  - name: "Television"
    slug: "television"
  - name: "Screenwriting"
    slug: "screenwriting"
  - name: "Painting"
    slug: "painting"
  - name: "Art"
    slug: "art"
  - name: "Film Directing"
    slug: "film-directing"
  - name: "20th Century"
    slug: "20th-century"
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0660886/"
    handle:    "nm0660886"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://parajanov.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q311311"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Parajanov"
    title: "Wikipedia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Sergei%20Parajanov"
    title: "Pantheon 2.0"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AC%D9%89_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%81"
    title: "سيرجى باراجانوف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Paracanov"
    title: "Sergey Paracanov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be_x_old.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%8F%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%9E"
    title: "Сяргей Параджанаў"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%8F%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%86%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%96%D1%84%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%96%D1%87_%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%9E"
    title: "Сяргей Іосіфавіч Параджанаў"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2"
    title: "Сергей Параджанов"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%97%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%87_%E0%A6%AA%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%AD"
    title: "সের্গেই প্যারাজনভ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergej_Parad%C5%BEanov"
    title: "Sergej Paradžanov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serguei_Paradj%C3%A0nov"
    title: "Serguei Paradjànov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://crh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Paracanov"
    title: "Sergey Paracanov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergej_Parad%C5%BEanov"
    title: "Sergej Paradžanov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Iossifowitsch_Paradschanow"
    title: "Sergei Iossifowitsch Paradschanow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A3%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%B3%CE%BA%CE%AD%CE%B9_%CE%A0%CE%B1%CF%81%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%B6%CE%AC%CE%BD%CF%89%CF%86"
    title: "Σεργκέι Παρατζάνωφ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergej_Para%C4%9Danov"
    title: "Sergej Paraĝanov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergu%C3%A9i_Paradzh%C3%A1nov"
    title: "Serguéi Paradzhánov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Parad%C5%BEanov"
    title: "Sergei Paradžanov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%B1%DA%AF%D8%A6%DB%8C_%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%81"
    title: "سرگئی پاراجانف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Parad%C5%BEanov"
    title: "Sergei Paradžanov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergue%C3%AF_Paradjanov"
    title: "Sergueï Paradjanov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Parajanov"
    title: "Sergei Parajanov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A1%D7%A8%D7%92%D7%99%D7%99_%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%92'%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%91"
    title: "סרגיי פרג'נוב"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergej_Josifovi%C4%8D_Parad%C5%BEanov"
    title: "Sergej Josifovič Paradžanov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D5%8D%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%A3%D5%A5%D5%B5_%D5%93%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%A1%D5%BB%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%B8%D5%BE"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://uk.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D1%96%D0%B9_%D0%99%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/4635645"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergej_Paradsjanov"
    title: "Sergej Paradsjanov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Parajanov"
    title: "Sergei Parajanov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%BA%D9%8A_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%81"
    title: "سيرغي باراجانوف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born to Armenian parents in Georgia in 1924, Parajanov studied at Moscow's film institute under Ukrainian masters and began directing in 1954. For over a decade he made films he would later dismiss as "garbage," bound by socialist realism's constraints, growing increasingly disenchanted. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors in 1965 broke the mold and brought international acclaim. The Color of Pomegranates followed in 1969 — a work of such symbolic force it's now considered one of cinema's peaks. Soviet authorities claimed he was bisexual and used it to tighten scrutiny over his personal life, his films, and his ties to Ukrainian nationalism; from 1965 to 1973 they banned nearly every project he proposed, many without discussion. He died in 1990, having spent years fighting to make the visions that earned him the label "conjurer of cinematic worlds."