Swan Lake - The Zone
(Lebedyne ozero. Zona)
Directed by Yuri Ilyenko .
With Victor Solovyov, Liudmyla Yefymenko, Maya Bulhakova.
Ukraine/Canada/Sweden, 1990, 35mm, color, 96 min.
Ukranian with English subtitles.
With Victor Solovyov, Liudmyla Yefymenko, Maya Bulhakova.
Ukraine/Canada/Sweden, 1990, 35mm, color, 96 min.
Ukranian with English subtitles.
This dense, visually potent political allegory from the Ukraine was directed by Sergei Parajanov’s virtuoso cinematographer and based loosely on Parajanov’s own prison experience in the late days of Communism. A man escapes from a notorious jail in the Ukraine and takes refuge in a huge hammer-and-sickle monument. The Los Angeles Times: "A film of astonishing beauty."
