Cinema
მე ვხედავ მზეს
Lana Gogoberidze · 1965
Synopsis
In a village in western Georgia during the war, an orphan raised by his aunt befriends Khatia, a blind girl who perceives only the light of the sun. The men are at the front, news arrives poorly, and the child sets his mind on restoring his friend's sight.
Context
The film is based on the book by Nodar Dumbadze, who co-wrote the adaptation. Its director had already made a first feature-length fiction film in the early sixties, and her mother is the filmmaker Nutsa Gogoberidze. Gela Chichinadze and Leila Kipiani play the two child roles, Lia Eliava the aunt; the production is by the Tbilisi studio. The source text had appeared three years earlier and had sold throughout the Union.
Who it is for
It helps to know that the source work was, at the time of filming, one of the most widely read in the country, and that the Georgian public knew the story before entering the cinema.
Prizes and reception
The second fiction film by a director who will produce in 1978 one of the most discussed works of Soviet cinema on the condition of women.
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