Cinema
რჩეული
Mikheil Kalatozishvili · 1991
Synopsis
1921. The peasant Djouna lives in peace with his wife and son in a Georgian village, until the arrival of the Red Army upsets this balance. One day when the father is away, the boy takes in and hides a man hunted by the new authorities. The father will return, and he will have to learn what his son has done.
Context
The screenplay is by David Akhobadze and the director, based on “Mateo Falcone” by Prosper Mérimée, whose Corsican story is transposed to Georgia in the early twenties. Avtandil Makharadze plays the father and Nineli Chankvetadze the mother; the cinematography is by Archil Akhvlediani and the music by Zurab Nadaraia. One hundred and ten minutes, in colour, produced by the national studio in the very year it stopped shooting.
Who it is for
In Georgian and Russian, with no French release. It is necessary to know that Mérimée had set his story in Corsica, and that the whole film rests on the transfer of this point of honour to the Caucasus.
Prizes and reception
Special Jury Prize at the Madrid international festival in 1992, selection at the Berlinale and a Nika Award nomination: the only international recognition its director received.