Aleqsandre Rekhviashvili – XIX saukunis qartuli qronika AKA The 19th Century Georgian Chronicle (1979)
The debut film by Alexander Rekhviashvili, one of the leaders of the new wave’s first flow, Georgian Chronicle of the 19th Century (Gruzinskaya hronika XIX veka, 1979), places us in a Kafkaesque city where a lonely student goes through all the circles of bureaucratic hell to help the peasants of his home village win back their land from bourgeois industrialists. The distorted urban sets in the Chronicle remind one of German expressionism and Caligari. The horrifyingly circular structure of the narrative, the morose suspense of the slow-paced action, the atmosphere of silent torture in a vacuum, bring to mind Orson Welles’s The Trial. The long sequence in the forest where two assassins chase the student and finally eliminate him, leaving the rest of the film without a hero, is obviously influenced by Kurosawa’s Rashomon. What is harder to find in Georgian Chronicle is the influence of Rekhviashvili’s native predecessors in the Georgian school.
833MB | 1h 3mn | 768×576 | mkv
http://nitroflare.com/view/EA174331AA1D80F/The_19th_Century_Georgian_Chronicle__1979__%281%29.mkv
Language(s):Georgian
Subtitles:English, French, Russian
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