Budapest Classic Film Marathon: The Color of Pomegranates
Soviet drama, colour, 79 min, 1969
in original language (Armenian, Azerbaijani, Georgian) with Hungarian subtitles
Show times:
Director: Sergei Parajanov
Screenplay by Sergei Parajanov
Director of photography: Suren Shakhbazyan
Music by Tigran Mansuryan
Cast: Sofiko Chiaureli, Melkon Alekyan, Vilen Galstyan
Open Archives / Cineteca di Bologna
In this film based on the life of Harutin Sayadyan, the Armenian poet known as Sayat-Nova, the pomegranate is a symbol that is ever present: a whole cosmos lies hidden beneath the fruit’s inedible, armour-like and bitter skin, because each seed is its own small juicy fruit, fertility itself, creation, life... The Armenian genius Sergei Parajanov, indomitable despite his hugely troubled life, did not make a typical biopic of the poet but instead (in a way difficult to describe in words) an experimental film building on many interlinked symbols, which succeeds in evoking the spirit of the bard. “I tried to depict art in life rather than life in art,” Parajanov said of his movie, which after many vicissitudes can finally be viewed by audiences today in the form its creator imagined.
Other programs of the Budapest Classic Film Marathon in Urania >>
Nouvelle vague (16)
TicketsCall Us14:00 Csortos teremMohács – Világok harca (12)
TicketsCall Us15:00 Fábri teremThe Stranger (16)
TicketsCall Us15:00 DíszteremSacred Heart: His Reign Has No End (12)
TicketsCall Us16:00 Törőcsik Mari teremHugo (12)
TicketsCall Us16:00 Csortos teremRebuilding (12)
TicketsCall Us17:00 DíszteremMauvaise pioche (12)
TicketsCall Us17:30 Fábri teremBlue Heron (16)
TicketsCall Us18:00 Csortos teremAdam's Apples (16)
TicketsCall Us18:00 Törőcsik Mari teremA Private Life (16)
TicketsCall Us19:00 DíszteremMeeting the Buddha (12)
TicketsCall Us19:30 Fábri teremHate (16)
TicketsCall Us20:00 Csortos teremI Swear (16)
TicketsCall Us20:00 Törőcsik Mari teremIn the Grey (16)
2026.06.27 11:45 - 13:40
2026.07.04 11:00 - 13:00
2026.07.12 16:00 - 18:00
07.27 - 07.30
2026.10.03 19:00 - 23:00
2026.10.11 18:00 - 22:00
2026.10.17 19:00 - 21:30
2026.10.25 18:00 - 21:30
2026.11.08 15:00 - 18:30
2026.11.15 18:00 - 21:15
Opening hours: on weekdays at 2:30 PM, on weekends at 10:30 AM.
Box office closes 15 minutes after the start of the last screening.
The Uránia Café is open during the opening hours of the cinema.
© Uránia Nemzeti Filmszínház
1088 Budapest, Rákóczi út 21.
getting here
ticket info
contact us
company details
press
privacy policy