Otar Iosseliani – Iko shashvi mgalobeli aka Once Lived a Song-Thrush (1970)
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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.…Some people, because of social contingencies or more probably because human nature is that way, deploy frenetic physical and mental activity throughout their lives without ever achieving anything. We did not try to establish statistics to determine the frequency of such a phenomenon, we simply looked around us, and what we noticed plunged us into deep sadness: there you are, people are living, everyone He has only one life, and many people do not realize how quickly time passes. They do not realize that their memory has not retained a single memory of an act of the slightest importance in their life… « Not now, later. » they say to themselves, and one fine day, a brick falls on their head and life is over.
(declaration of intent to the state industry of Soviet Georgia, Positif, n°476, October 2000)
Iko shashvi mgalobeli aka Once lived a song-thrush - Otar Iosseliani (1970).mkv General Container: Matroska Runtime: 1 h 21 min Size: 2.20 GiB Video Codec: x264 Resolution: 790x576 Aspect ratio: 1.372 Frame rate: 24.000 fps Bit rate: 3 600 kb/s BPP: 0.330 Audio #1: 1.0ch FLAC @ 277 kb/s (Georgian, a bit of Russian)
Language(s):Georgian, a bit of Russian
Subtitles:English, French