The Flickering Fire in the Night

The action of the film takes place in a children's colony, where a film is being shot. In the colony, director Manvel Simonyan gets to know the minor prisoner Hovhannes Darbinyan, who was sentenced to prison for stabbing her lover while trying to protect his mother. The director takes upon himself the burden of releasing a juvenile prisoner before the deadline.

Parajanov lifts the curtain on numerous unfinished scenes and fragments of unshot films. These are memories of his childhood, death, friends, Tiflis, Kyiv, Yerevan. Seven stories from the life of Parajanov and the close circle that shared his entire life path with him.

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.

Scriptwriter, author, artist, sculptor, dramatist, architect, journalist, constructor, philanthropist, pedagogue, metalworker, inventor, public figure, agriculturist, gardener, chemist and simply a good person. He also plays football and the saxophone. In scale and versatility he is comparable to Leonardo da Vinci, but it is known that Leonardo could not play the saxophone, did not play football and did not write scripts. Tonino Guerra is the last representative of the Italian Renaissance.