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Gia is a young percussionist working at an orchestra in Tbilisi. He is incapable of standing still and, consequently, keeps oscillating from friend to friend and lover to lover, always managing to arrive just in time to play at the end of the ballet. Through this Soviet comedy, Iosseliani questions notions of ‘right’ and ‘wrong’.
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Cast:
Gela Kandelaki, Gogi Chkheidze, Jansung Kakhidze -
Country:
Russia -
Year:
1970 - 85 min Subtitles FR and PT
Director
Otar Iosseliani
Otar Iosseliani (1934) is a filmmaker born in Georgia, but a significant part of his career was spent in France. He studied music, mathematics, and later cinema. He learned from Alexander Dovzhenko. His films received awards at Festivals such as Cannes, Venice, Berlin and Locarno. He won the Louis Delluc prize for his film Adieu, plancher des vaches! (1999) and Chantrapas (2010) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Picture. His latest film, Chant D’Hiver (2015), won the João Bénard da Costa Special Jury Award at the LEFFEST’15.