50 years after the decision, the National Rehabilitation Commission of Ukraine ensured the rehabilitation of film director Sergei Parajanov (1924-1990), who was convicted in the USSR for sodomy. The Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance reported this on Facebook (its owner, Meta, is known as an extremist and is banned in Russia).
According to the organization, on the 100th anniversary of the artist, who is the author of the films “Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors” and “The Color of Pomegranates”, which are representatives of the wave of Ukrainian poetic cinema, it was decided to rehabilitate him after a detailed analysis. criminal case of the filmmaker and other archival documents.
“A political motive was created for the criminal prosecution and conviction of Sergei Parajanov,” the organization said.
According to Anton Drobovich, head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance, Parajanov’s legal rehabilitation is “a unique and important event.”
“This is further evidence of the thesis that goodness and justice will ultimately prevail, even from a strategic perspective,” he said.
On April 25, 1974, the Kiev District Court sentenced Sergei Parajanov to five years in a maximum security camp with confiscation of personal property under the provisions of sodomy, including the use of violence. He spent four years in prison.
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