Los corceles de fuego
By Charlotte Stace
CaixaForum brings audiences a screening of the Russian film Tini zabutykh predkiv (Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors) (1964). Directed by the Soviet musician, painter and filmmaker Sergei Paradjanov, it was his first major work and was celebrated for its avant-garde nature.
Shot in Hutsul, a variant of Ukrainian spoken in the villages of the Eastern Carpathians, Paradjanov based the film on the 1911 novel Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors by the Ukrainian author, Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky. It tells a "Romeo and Juliet" style story of two young Ukrainian Hutsul lovers named Ivan and Marichka, who are trapped on opposite sides of a local family feud.
The film is brought to the museum as a part of José Luis Guerin’s film series entitled “The Film Landscape”. It will be shown in its original language with subtitles in Spanish.