Georgian films

[Alina Israeli]

Looking for Tengiz Abuladze (Chuzhie deti, for. ex.) is one way of
searching, the other is to look for the films with their great star Sofiko
Chiaureli. She is a fantastic actress (and used to be extremely beautiful
in her younger days).

Danelia is more of a "Moscow" director than anything. His last film "Orel i
reshka" is pretty good, but the only ethnic characters there were Gypsy.

And then there was this amazing phenomenon of Sergej Paradzhanov, who I
believe was an Armenian who grew up in Tbilisi, but started his movie
career at the Dovzhenko studio in Kiev. (Cvet granata, Teni zabytyx
predkov).

>I know the following movies:
>
>        "The Tree of Desire" (or, The Wishing Tree), "Drevo Zhelaniya"
>        1977 by Tengiz Abuladze
>
>        Check on IMDB for the movies of Danelia - he is superb. Most of
>his films, though, refer to the lives of simple soviet people. "Afonya"
>and "Osenny Marafon" (Autumn Marathon) have nothing to do with Georgian
>culture, but they are great and they have the special Georgian
>cinematographic feel.

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