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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
4K UHD, #1336

$32.99
Estimated Street Date: Tuesday, November 17 2026

Specifications

Format 4K UHD Blu-ray
Condition New
Label Criterion

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

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