Shadows of our Forgotten Ancestors (1964)

Now back to one of Pretty Pink's obscurities, another film that I have been looking for.  This picture by a Russian Georgian director, but shot in Ukrainian, recreates a folk history from one hundred years earlier.  In episodic form it tells the story of star-crossed lovers where boy can never have girl and how this haunts him throughout his remaining life.  However the storyline is far less important that the cinematography which swirls richly into a bygone world -- truly a visual feast -- and the recreation of a long-lost way of life, particularly in contrast to Communist Russia of the 1960's.  The director went on to shoot "The Colour of Pomegranates" four years later, another miracle of colour and storytelling.