Islands

A bunch of stories, portraits and images about people of amazing destinies, including Parajanov and Tarkovsky, merging into a non-traditional and polemic image of Armenia.

Cast

Sergei Parajanov

as Himself (archive footage)

Andrei Tarkovsky

as Himself (archive footage)

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