Sunday Feature: Troubadour of the Caucasus

Lucy Ash explores the life and legacy of Armenian filmmaker Sergei Parajanov, by talking to those who knew him and those he inspired. She visits the Armenian capital of Yerevan and focuses on his most famous film, The Colour of Pomegranates, which tells the story of an 18th-century singer-poet and monk, Sayat Nova. The Soviet authorities thought they had commissioned a straightforward biopic of a revered national hero. Instead, they got a film with almost no dialogue, unfolding as a series of highly stylised tableaux amidst the rugged landscape of the Caucasus