13/08/2026
Parfum parfum parfum. The film is further characterized by q***r and androgynous imagery. For example, the main actress Sofiko Chiaureli plays both the Poet and his lover; imagery like the conch shell and feather, symbols of the female and male respectively, are used in tandem by multiple characters; and the young poet’s sexual awakening comes when he sees n**e male and female bodies in the bath house. This is in line with Parajanov’s own life, as he was convicted for homosexual acts, as well as nationalism, multiple times in Georgia (1948) and Ukraine (1973, imprisoned in Russia),[31] which discriminated against homosexual people due to demographic concerns and a Stalinist ideological basis: homosexuality was seen as a social disease that threatened the collective Soviet ethos.[32] Thus, this androgyny can be read as parallel to the film’s disruption of the traditional ethnic unity, permeated by state ideology, which it accomplishes by interweaving facets of Armenian, Georgian, Ukrainian, and Russian cultural traditions
