谢尔盖·帕拉杰诺夫，1924年生于前苏联格鲁吉亚的第比利斯，父母都是亚美尼亚人。从小就显示出他对色彩的敏感和天神一般的绘画天赋。除了绘画，从小他就对电影和音乐有着浓厚的兴趣。1945年，他21岁，求学莫斯科是他一生的转折点。他进入俄罗斯电影学院（VGIK）导演系学习拍片。这是一个历史悠久的著名电影学校，为欧洲大陆贡献了大批电影大师。之后成为老师杜甫仁科的助手，杜甫仁科是苏联诗电影的祖先，塔尔科夫斯基和帕拉杰诺夫都得益于他的教诲。

The Confession (1990) survives in Parajanov: The Last Spring (1992) in its original camera negative. It remained unfinished due to the death of Sergei Parajanov. The Confession (1990) was his favorite screenplay, which was written in the 1960s and was his film-memory of the childhood, student years, marriage, imprisonment and more as the fantasist Parajanov perceived it. Parajanov gifted the screenplay to Mikhail Vartanov, made a drawing on the cover and wrote: "The Confession will only be made by a director born in 1924 in Tiflis, Georgia." He predicted that he would not finish it.