DGES GAME UTENEBIA

Lana Gogoberidze, the daughter of Georgia’s first female film director Nutsa Gogoberidze, has always focused on female themes and characters. As she herself explains, in the beginning this focus was subconscious, almost instinctive, but later she came to see it as her mission: “For millennia, it was men who had the word in every sphere of life; now I wanted to speak for myself.” She infused each of her heroines with fragments of her own experiences and emotions. Like Eva, the protagonist of this film, Lana herself lived through the harsh Soviet reality—her father was executed as an “enemy of the people” in 1936, and her mother,, was arrested, sentenced to ten years of exile, and her films were banned. Yet, perhaps because of this, Lana followed in her mother’s footsteps, giving Georgian cinema a distinctive and powerful female voice. DAY IS LONGER THAN THE NIGHT premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 1984.

Text: Lenka Tyrpáková

Thu 06.11. I 18:30 I OBENKINO I original version with English subtitles