Georgia

  • Temur Babluani – Udzinarta mze AKA The Sun of the Sleepless (1992)

    1991-2000DramaGeorgiaTemur BabluaniThriller
    Udzinarta mze (1992)
    Udzinarta mze (1992)

    The director dedicated this lyrical, epic film-confession to the memory of his father who was a doctor. The film’s protagonist, an ambulance doctor, conducts dangerous experiments in search of a vitally important vaccine. His wife believes in his work, though his daughter would not understand him. His son, who is absolutely unlike his father in character, is trying to protect him. But self-denial in the name of science proves too high a price. Just when he is on the verge of discovery, the doctor loses everything he has gathered as a result of his twenty-year-long work. This loss brings him even closer to his son. The shooting of the film continued for seven years (1985-1992), making it a metaphorical culmination of the Soviet cinematography and the Soviet way of life as a whole.Read More »

  • Rezo Esadze – Erti nakhvit shekvareba AKA Love at First Sight (1977)

    1971-1980DramaGeorgiaRezo EsadzeRomance
    Erti nakhvit shekvareba (1977)
    Erti nakhvit shekvareba (1977)

    Film narrated about the first love of Muradi Rasulov, ninth-former and a passionate football fan. He’s in love with a girl two years older than him.

    This seemingly insignificant circumstance together with the girl’s family tradition became a serious but brief obstacle for newly-weds.

    The director’s cut of the film released in 1988.Read More »

  • Tengiz Abuladze & Rezo Chkheidze – Magdanas lurja AKA Magdana’s Donkey (1956)

    Tengiz Abuladze1951-1960ClassicsDramaGeorgiaRezo Chkheidze
    Magdanas lurja (1956)
    Magdanas lurja (1956)

    This chamber drama is set in Georgia on the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. A simple peasant family makes its living by selling yogurt which the Magdany widow takes every morning to the town market. Once, in their mother’s absence, the children – six-year-old Mikho and three-year-old Kato – found an abandoned donkey on a road leading to their village. The foundling was fed, tended, and the moment the donkey opened its big, tender eyes, it was named “Lurdja”, which means “blue-eyed”. Surrounded by love and care, the donkey became a big help in the poor household. But this idyll was not to last long…

    Winner – Palme d’Or, Cannes IFF, 1956Read More »

  • Otar Iosseliani – Iko shashvi mgalobeli aka Once Lived a Song-Thrush (1970)

    Otar Iosseliani1961-1970ComedyGeorgia
    Iko shashvi mgalobeli (1970)
    Iko shashvi mgalobeli (1970)

    იყო შაშვი მგალობელი
    Iko shashvi mgalobeli

    Preface to the film script (googletranslated) wrote:
    …The story we intend to tell will fall into the genre of dramatic comedy, or, if we can reverse the notion, that of comic drama. Among the questions that have attracted our attention, the most important and oldest seems to us to be that of self-realization, of man facing his earthly destiny. We are deeply convinced that this question remains as present today as ever.Read More »

  • Otar Iosseliani – Dzveli qartuli simgera AKA Georgian Ancient Songs (1969)

    1961-1970DocumentaryGeorgiaOtar IosselianiShort Film
    Dzveli qartuli simgera (1969)
    Dzveli qartuli simgera (1969)

    ძველი ქართული სიმღერა
    PLOT: Under the premise of documenting for the sake of preservation the various forms of Georgian religious chanting, a distinct kind of sonorous psalmody passed over from generation to generation, what Otar Iosseliani captures in reality is the snapshot of a not-so-distant past that coexists with the world we might know yet transports us to what used to be.Read More »

  • Otar Iosseliani – Tudzhi AKA Cast Iron (1964)

    Otar Iosseliani1961-1970DocumentaryGeorgiaShort Film
    Tudzhi (1964)
    Tudzhi (1964)

    თუჯი
    Documentary of the Rustavi Metal Works, in the country of Georgia.Read More »

  • Otar Iosseliani – Aprili (1961) (HD)

    Otar Iosseliani1961-1970GeorgiaRomance

    Quote:
    A young happy couple moves from a poor district to a new housing estate.
    APRILI is a parable. Two young lovers are caught in a trap by older people who cut trees and make furniture… Their love is lost in their beautiful, cluttered apartment…Read More »

  • Davit Pirtskhalava – Didi shesveneba AKA A Long Break (2022)

    2021-2030Davit PirtskhalavaDramaGeorgia
    Didi shesveneba (2022)
    Didi shesveneba (2022)

    IMDB:
    After 13 years, Tsitsi (31) initiates a reunion of his former classmates with a seemingly harmless cause: they have not seen each other since graduation and the reason for the gathering is to remember school and have a drink. However, Tsitsi has a secret motivation: he wants to punish his former classmate, Guga (31), who used to make life difficult for the entire class at school. Several male classmates gather at school, drink, talk, and as their time together progresses, Tsitsi gets drunk and tries to accomplish his goal.Read More »

  • Otar Iosseliani – Pastorali AKA Pastorale (1975)

    Otar Iosseliani1971-1980ComedyDramaGeorgia

    Quote:
    Pastorali explores what is truly valuable in human relationships, when one cuts away the non-essentials. The story shows what happens when a highly cultured group of musicians from a string quartet spend the summer rehearsing in a small village in the Georgian countryside. In this contemplative, idiosyncratic and somewhat humorous film, they get embroiled in local controversies, and share their gusto for living, loving and drinking with the villagers, to whom they are otherwise incomprehensible, while they rehearse and bicker among themselvesRead More »

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