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Mikhail Vartanov (1937–2009)Vartanov was blacklisted, and his cast-the modernist Minas and cineaste Paradjanov-were assassinated and imprisoned, respectively, after the shooting of the wordless film The Color of Land (1969). As a result, the suppressed films Vartanov made from 1969 to 1989 had never been publicly screened until Busan Film Festival resurrected them for the first ever retrospective 43 years later... See full bio » Born:in Chechnya, USSR (now Russia)Died:(age 72) in Hollywood, California, USA |











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