Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (4K-UHD) ***Preorder*** 11/17
$62.99
PRE-ORDER
Buy and save
Buy and earn $0.62 Loyalty for your next purchase
Loyalty is a discount program that lets you buy products and earn points to redeem on your next purchase. Your Loyalty balance is updated when you pay online or in-store. The Loyalty amount shown on this page can be recalculated at the checkout.
Out of stock, available for pre-purchase
Product Details
Brand: Criterion
Format: 4K-UHD
A towering achievement of world cinema, Sergei Parajanov’s modernist landmark fuses folkloric traditions, animistic mysticism, and hallucinatory visual invention. Adapted from a 1911 novella by Ukrainian writer Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors follows Ivanko (Ivan Mykolaichuk), a young Hutsul peasant who experiences both the depths of grief and glimmers of hope as he attempts to move beyond his first love, Marichka (an ethereal Larysa Kadochnykova). Steeped in the earthy atmosphere of the Carpathian Mountains, and featuring kinetic, radiantly colorful cinematography by Yuri Illienko and a collagelike experimental soundtrack, Parajanov’s film is a singularly mythopoeic work of art.
4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- New audio commentary featuring historian Joshua First
- New introduction by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project founder Martin Scorsese
- New interview with actor Larysa Kadochnykova
- The Lilac Wind of Paradjanov (2025), a feature documentary by Ali Khamraev
- Shadowsur (2026), an experimental short film by Martiros Vartanov about director Sergei Parajanov’s son
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by critic Carmen Gray
Save this product for later
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (4K-UHD) ***Preorder*** 11/17
Display prices in:CAD
