Cinema
გზა შინისაკენ
Aleksandre Rekhviashvili · 1981
Synopsis
In Southern Georgia under Ottoman rule, a child learns cruelty and injustice early. Having become Antimoz Iverieli, a philosopher and man of learning, he puts himself at the service of his own people and defends them. The Turks take him to Romania, and he has only one thought left, to return home. The road is long, and the obstacles are not only those of the journey.
Context
The screenplay is by Erlom Akhvlediani, Rezo Kvesselava and the director; the cinematography is by Archil Pilipashvili and the music by Vakhtang Kukhianidze. Vakhtang Panchulidze plays the leading role, alongside Ramaz Chkhikvadze and Avtandil Makharadze. Seventy-eight minutes in black and white. The film continues the manner of the previous one, which Soviet critics judged hermetic and which Western festivals had, on the contrary, distinguished.
Who it is for
A historical drama in Georgian, with no French release. It helps to know that Antimoz Iveriéli existed: a Georgian printer and churchman, he became metropolitan in Wallachia.
Prizes and reception
No awards are known for this film. Two years earlier its author had received the grand prize at the Mannheim festival for the previous one.