The story of the 94 year old female protagonist compelled Mikhail Vartanov to tell of the similar fate that befell the bright young stars of his first film Paradjanov: The Color of Armenian Land (1969) - Parajanov (imprisoned in 1973) and Minas (assassinated in 1975) - and he created two more films, completing a trilogy: Minas: Rekviem (1989) and Parajanov: The Last Spring (1992). The 1987 Erased Faces inspired Boy with a Movie Camera.