Cinema
Here Comes the Dawn
აქ თენდება
Zaza Urushadze · 1998
Synopsis
The head of a state security service faces a choice: keep serving the state, or give everything up to save his gravely ill son. The film follows this man torn between the loyalty his position demands and a father's duty, until the moment when he has to decide.
Context
First feature film by its director, who wrote the screenplay with Amiran Tchitchinadzé; the film was produced by Rezo Tchkhéidzé, whom this catalogue also lists elsewhere, for the Kartuli Pilmi studio, with photography by Igor Amassiïski and music by Guiorgui Tsintsadzé. Zourab Begalichvili, Nino Kobéridzé, Nino Lejava and Gouram Pirtskhalava are in the cast. It runs for ninety minutes and is shown at many festivals, but its distribution remains very limited. Nearly ten years separate this film from the next one.
Who it is for
A film in Georgian, subtitled, an hour and a half long; it remains hard to see outside festivals and archives.
Prizes and reception
Screenplay award at the Alma-Ata festival, and Georgia's candidate for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for the 2000 ceremony, without being among the nominees.