sentences:  It was not until mid-80s, when political climate started to change, that he could resume directing.Still, it required help of influential Georgian actor David (Dodo) Abashidze and other friends to have his last feature films green-lighted.His health seriously weakened by 4 years in labor camps and 9 months in Tbilisi prison, Parajanov died of lung cancer in 1990, at the time when, after almost 20 years of suppression, his films were finally again allowed to be featured in foreign film festivals.