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Francis Ford Coppola described the last film by a director of this ethnicity as “created under prohibitive conditions and yet [exemplifying] the power of art over any limitations.” A documentary about a filmmaker from this ethnic group includes the footage of his unfinished film The Confession and is subtitled The Last Spring. In a different film by a director of this ethnicity, monks press moisture out of old texts and (*) ascend ladders before a shot of a young boy laying on a roof surrounded (10[1])by open books. A director from this ethnic group included the opening narration “I am the man whose life and soul are torture” in an evocation of the life of a poet of this ethnicity, Sayat-Nova. For 10 points, Mikhail Vartanov and Sergei Parajanov were filmmakers of what ethnicity, whose troubadours were inspiration for the latter’s film The Color of Pomegranates? ■END■

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