Inspired by an ancient Russian folk tale and adapted from the novella by Daniel Chongadze The Legend Of Suram Fortress is a dazzling film by visionary director Sergei Paradjanov (Ashik Kerib Shadows Of Forgotten Ancestors). As the story opens repeated efforts by the Georgian people to construct a defensive stronghold continually fail. The building they are laboring to complete collapses but then a fortune teller remembers an old prophecy: In order for the fortress to stand the son of her erstwhile lover must be bricked up inside the structure - alive. The young man... is faced with the prospect of sacrificing himself to save his homeland. Filled with vivid and unforgettable imagery The Legend Of Suram Fortress is a surreal ode to the Georgian warriors throughout the ages who died for their country. [show more]
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French auteur Eric Rohmer directs this adaptation of the 1607 pastoral fantasy by Honore d'Urfe about a lovelorn shepherd in fifth century Gaul. In an enchanted forest, shepherd Celadon (Andy Gillet) and shepherdess Astrea (Stephanie Crayencour) share a pure and chaste love. Fooled by a suitor, Astrea dismisses Celadon, who throws himself into a river out of despair. The heartbroken Astrea - who has now, too late, discovered her suspicions to be false - believes Celadon to be dead, but what she does not know is that Celadon has in fact been saved from death by the water nymphs. Mad with love and despair, coveted by the nymphs and surrounded by rivals, Celadon is obliged to disguise himself as a woman to be near the one he loves.
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