Original title: Gagma napiri
AKA: The Other Bank
Year: 2009
Runtime: 1 hour, 29 minutes
Country: Georgia | Kazakhstan
Language: Georgian | Abkhazian | Russian
Subtitles: Bulgarian (.srt) & English (.txt) & French (.sub/.idx)
Genre: Drama

Director: George Ovashvili

Cast:
Tedo Bekhauri … Tedo
Tamar Meskhi … Mariam
Archil Tabukashvili … 1st Boy
Temo Goginava … 2nd Boy
Lia Abuladze … Zita
Leila Khokhosadze … Aunt Maro
Nika Alajajev
Galoba Gambaria
Sopho Gvritishvili
Berdia Inckirveli
Jano Isoria

Plot/Synopsis:
A young refugee and his mother flee ethnic cleansing in the Georgian region of Abkhazia, leaving his father behind. After arriving in the Georgina capital of Tbilisi, the young boy encounters difficulties with his mother, and begins a lonely journey back to Abkahzia to find his father.

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The Other Bank (2009)
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Original title: Susa
Year: 2010
Runtime: 1 hour,15 minutes
Country: Georgia
Language: Georgian
Subtitles: English | Dutch (.sub/.idx)
Genre: Drama

Director: Rusudan Pirveli

Cast:
Giorgi Gogishvili
Ekaterine Kobakhidze
Avtandil Tetradze

Plot/Synopsis:
Susa is a twelve-year-old boy growing up in a shabby neighborhood in post-Soviet Georgia. Susa’s mother works for a gang of bootleggers who make and sell illegal home-brewed vodka, and Susa has been drafted into serving as a delivery boy. Susa’s work is hard, his hours are long and he regularly visits the ugliest and most dangerous parts of the city. The one thing that gives Susa hope is his mother’s frequent promises that some day his father will return, and he’ll put the family back on a solid footing. To Susa’s surprise, one day his father does come back, but the man he meets is a frail, emotionally devastated character who can’t do much for himself, let alone his wife and son. Susa soon realizes he can only count on himself, but the youngster wonders how long he can deal with such a bleak existence.

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Original title: Depuis qu’Otar est parti…
Year: 2003
Runtime: 99 minutes
Country: France | Belgium | Georgia
Language: Georgian | French | Russian (mono audio)
Subtitles: English | Spanish | French (.srt)
Genre: Drama

Director: Julie Bertucelli

Cast:
Esther Gorintin … Eka
Nino Khomasuridze … Marina
Dinara Drukarova … Ada
Temur Kalandadze … Tengiz
Rusudan Bolqvadze … Rusiko
Sasha Sarishvili … Alexi
Duta Skhirtladze … Niko
Abdellah Moundy … Berber
Mzia Eristavi … Dora
Misha Eristavi … Dora’s son
Zoura Natrochvili … Neighbour (Mika)
Alexandre Makhorablichvili … Official
Micha Moudjiri … Plant manager
Jacques Fleury … Businessman 1
Frédéric Payen … Businessman 2

Plot/Synopsis:
A family is forced into deception for the sake of their matriarch in this poignant drama.

Three generations of women share a tiny apartment in Tbilisi, a Georgia city that has been devastated by war, political instability, and a ruined economy. Eka is an elderly woman whose health is failing, but her will remains strong and she holds sway over the household. Eka’s daughter, Marina, is a middle-aged woman who is still dealing with the devastating circumstances of her childhood and the death of her husband. And Marina’s daughter, Ada, is a college student who feels trapped by her circumstances and abraded by her lack of privacy; she has a lover, but since she must share a bed with her mother, they can only make love in his car.

The light of Eka’s life is her son, Otar, who has fled Tbilisi and lives in Paris. Otar writes frequently and sends money as often as he can, and while Marina resents her mother’s obvious favoritism toward her brother, she and Ada realize how important his letters are to her.

While Eka is visiting friends, Marina and Ada receive devastating news — Otar has died in Paris, and since he wasn’t carrying his visa when his body was found, he’s been buried in an unmarked pauper’s grave. Afraid this news would be a severe blow to Eka’s poor health, Marina doesn’t tell her mother what has happened, and Ada begins writing letters as Otar to maintain the illusion that he’s alive. The ruse works well enough until Eka announces she’s raised enough money by selling her possessions to visit her son in France.

~ Allmovie ~

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Since Otar Left (2003)
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Original title: Monanieba
Year: 1984
Runtime: 2 hours, 24 minutes
Country: Georgia | Soviet Union
Language: Georgian
Subtitles: English (.srt) & Arabic | Chinese | Dutch | English | French | German | Hebrew | Italian | Japanese | Portugese | Russian | Spanish | Swedish (.sub/.idx)
Genre: Drama

Director: Tengiz Abuladze

Cast:
Avtandil Makharadze … Varlam Aravidze / Abel Aravidze
Ya Ninidze … Guliko
Zeinab Botsvadze … Ketevan Barateli
Ketevan Abuladze … Nino Barateli
Edisher Giorgobiani … Sandro Barateli
Kakhi Kavsadze … Mikheil Koresheli
Merab Ninidze … Tornike
Nino Zaqariadze … Elene Korisheli
Nano Ochigava … Ketevan as a child
Boris Tsipuria
Akaki Khidasheli
Leo (Levan) Antadze
Rezo Esadze
Mzia Makhviladze
Amiran Amiranashvili

Plot/Synopsis:
Repentance features Avtandil Makharadze in a dual role.
As Georgian mayor Varlam Aravidze, Makharadze is a strutting, arbitrarily cruel dictator, something of a composite Stalin and Hitler. Visually he very closely resembles Lavrentiy Beriya, Stalin’s right hander and one-time KGB chief.
As Abel, the mayor’s son, Makharadze finds himself in the middle of an ideological squabble when his father dies.
Ketevan Barateli, a local woman who had suffered mightily under the mayor’s regime, refuses to allow the old man’s corpse to be interred. Despite the son’s Herculean efforts, Barateli continues digging up the late mayor’s body, a symbolic gesture to prevent the dead man’s villainy from being forgotten.
Repentance was the first Soviet film that openly denounced the horrors of Stalinism, though the Georgian director Tengiz Abuladze (known for his poetic and surrealist films) chose to make it allegorical, deliberately using anachronisms and making the leading character look like a combination of Stalin’s henchman Lavrenti Beriya, Hitler, and Mussolini. An interesting point — the last name chosen for the leading character is totally fictional, there is no such name as Aravidze in Georgia. In fact, “aravi” means “nobody” in Georgian. The filmmakers opted for such a name in order not to offend any real person in the Republic of Georgia.
Filmed in 1984, Repentance fell victim to Soviet censorship from the moment it left the editing room. When it was finally released in 1987, the film was deservedly garlanded with several awards, including the Cannes Film Festival Special Jury Prize. ~ Hal Erickson, Allmovie

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Original title: Natvris khe
Year: 1976
Runtime: 101 minutes
Country: Georgia | Soviet Union
Language: Georgian
Subtitles: English (.srt)
Genre: Drama

Director: Tengiz Abuladze

Cast:
Lika Kavjaradze … Marita
Soso Jachvliani … Gedya
Zaza Kolelishvili … Shete
Kote Daushvili … Tsitsikore
Sofiko Chiaureli … Pupala
Kakhi Kavsadze … Rebel Iorami
Erosi Mandjgaladze … Mumbula
Otar Megvinetukhutsesi … Ertaozi
Ramaz Chkhikvadze … Priester Okhrokhine
Giorgi Gegechkori … Chachika
Sesilia Takaishvili … Maradia
Giorgi Khobua … Batula
Givi Berikashvili … Padgula
Djemal Gaganidze … Tagria
Boris Tsipuria … Qoria

Plot/Synopsis:
The film depicts life in a Georgian village.

The leitmotiv of the film is the love story between Marita and Gedia. Marita has to follow her father’s wish and gets married to wealthy Shete. However, her heart belongs to Gedia. Marita’s mother-in-law gets to know that Marita is not in love with her son and accuses her of adultery.

Following the village tradition, Marita is publicly punished. The good wins over the evil. There are rebellious people in the village who will never reconcile with inequity. ~ Georgian National Filmography

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The Wishing Tree (1976)
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Original title: Ambavi Suramis tsikhitsa
Year: 1984
Runtime: 83 minutes
Country: Soviet Union (Georgian SSR)
Language: Georgian
Subtitles: English (.srt & .sub/.idx)
Genre: Drama

Director: Sergei Parajanov, Dodo Abashidze

Cast:
Veriko Andjaparidze … Fortune Teller
Tamari Tsitsishvili
Dudukhana Tserodze … Osman-Agha’s Mother
Dodo Abashidze … Osman-Agha / Simon
Sofiko Chiaureli … Vardo
Zura Kipshidze … Durmish-Khan
Levan Uchaneishvili … Zurab
M. Abaishvili
Leila Alibegashvilli … Young Vardo
G. Ambartsumov
Mzia Arabuli

Plot/Synopsis:

Directors Sergei Paradzhanov and Dodo Abashidze resurrected an old Soviet Georgian folktale as the basis for their film The Legend of Suram Fortress. The fortress in question is forever under construction, and forever collapsing before the last brick can be laid. The advice of a fortuneteller is sought out; the young fellow sent out to seek this advice happens to be the son of a man who years earlier had jilted the fortuneteller. Out of pique, she tells him that he must be walled up in the fortress’ wall, else the structure will continue to tumble. So many ancient legends are based upon self-sacrifice that one would think that The Legend of Suram Fortress would have nothing new to offer — and one would be quite unfair to this well-crafted film to think along those lines. Never as brilliant as the critics made it out to be, Suram Fortress is still an immensely satisfying work from a gifted filmmaking team.

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The Legend of the Suram Fortress (1984) Ambavi Suramis tsikhitsa {Georgia}
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