October 15, 2010
by James Steffen, Film and Media Studies Librarian
The Russian Cinema Council DVD of Sergei Parajanov’s The Color of Pomegranates (1969) is the most recent of four editions of the film on DVD to date. Ruscico’s subtitled edition of the Yutkevich cut reinstates missing footage and thus corrects the disastrous audio sync problem which ruined their earlier unsubtitled edition, part of a “Best of Armenfilm” box set for the Russian market. However, we are still left with no wholly satisfactory version of the film on DVD anywhere on the world market. At the bottom of this post I will include some frame grabs for illustration.
