Otar Iosseliani

Otar Iosseliani, born in Tbilisi on 2 February 1934, left the conservatoire with diplomas in piano, conducting and composition before entering the Moscow film school, where he made his first film in 1958. His films of the sixties and seventies were kept off Soviet screens, the censors reproaching his characters for their social uselessness. Settled in France in 1982, he made the rest of his work there, some fifteen films nourished by René Clair, Keaton and Tati. He died in Tbilisi on 17 December 2023, aged eighty-nine.

In the catalogue 1

• CinemaThere Was a Singing Blackbirdიყო შაშვი მგალობელიOtar Iosseliani · 1970Cinema