Short film
ფეოლა
Baadur Tsuladze · 1970
Synopsis
An employee of a building management office is entrusted with creating a football team of teenagers in his neighbourhood. He cannot refuse and has no wish to do it: he fully expects the boys to lose their first match and a knockout tournament to rid him of them.
Context
The film is one of the parts of the almanac “The Ball, the Glove and the Captain”, produced by the Kartuli Pilmi studio. The screenplay is by Rezo Gabriadze and Gogi Tcharkviani, the cinematography by Iouri Fednev, the music by Guia Kantcheli and the sets by Guiorgui Aleksi-Meskhichvili. Ipolite Khvitchia plays the character who gives the film its title, after the Brazilian coach Vicente Feola, whose Brazil had just won two world titles.
Who it is for
Twenty minutes, in Georgian, with no French release. It is worth knowing that Feola was the Brazilian coach who was world champion in 1958, and that the title is a neighbourhood joke.
Prizes and reception
Jury prize at the third All-Union sports film festival, in Riga, in 1970. Its lines have passed into everyday speech in Georgia.