Section: Spotlight: Georgia

ARA, MEGOBARO

NO, PAL

Gio Mgeladze

Georgia, 1993, 30 Min

On the way into exile. Tbilisi in the 1990s. Levan wants to leave the country. With a light heart, he says goodbye to everyday things, brings his neighbour’s daughter to school, visits the cemetery again. But then everything turns out differently.

Georgian National Film Center

Levan really lives for the moment. But he doesn't miss the opportunity to take his neighbour’s girl Nutsa to school every morning. Cheerful and in a good mood, he walks through the streets, stops at the tobacco shop to steal cigarettes one last time. He gets rid of his useless pistol in the city’s river. Then he meets his friend Gio, and the tragedy takes its course.

Artistic contemporary document by Gio Mgeladze about the phase in Georgia's recent history marked by competition for resources and the civil war in Abkhazia. The leading actor was killed before the film was finished. MM

Filmformat
DCP | s/w / b/w

Drehbuch
Gio Mgeladze

Kamera
Davit Chikhladze

Ton
Dmitri Gedevanishvili

Schnitt
Gulnara Omiadze

Ausstattung
Tamar Potskhishvili

Musik
Davit Evgenidze

Darsteller
Levan Abashidze, Nino Kukhianidze, Giorgi Gurgulia, Gaga Nakhutsrishvili, Kahka Mkheidze

Produzent
Levan Paatashvili

Produktion
Studio “Georgian Film”

Kontakt
Georgian National Film Center
Levan Lomjaria
4 Zviad Gamsakhurdia Named Right Bank
0105 Tbilisi
Georgia
+995 32 22 99 92 00
l.lomjaria@gnfc.ge
www.gnfc.ge

Gio Mgeladze - born in 1969 in Tbilisi, Georgia. He graduated from the Shota Rustaveli University for Theatre and Film and is a true all-round talent: he is a film and theatre director, screenwriter, producer, author, photographer, actor. As such, he has made several short films, feature films and television films.

Movies
ATU-ALABA (OTEL CALIFORNIA) (1995, short)
IMAGO MUNDI (2012, short)

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