An interview with actor Sofiko Chiaureli, who starred in several Parajanov films
A single and not so young poet living in Moscow suddenly discovers that his summerhouse was sold by crooks to two different people.
This is the story of the Tbilisi-Batumi train, which, due to a switchman's mistake, first enters the line of occupation of the Georgian region of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, then the train enters the city of Chiatura.
This documentary is not a straightforward portrait of Armenian film director Sergei Paradjanov's life, but rather a fluid celebration of his talent and creativity. Focusing on the collages he produced during his years in prison, and featuring interviews with the director himself, Cazals' film demonstrates the scope of Paradjanov's artistic vision, lovingly commemorating this rebel of art cinema.
The last day of the year ends. At the Christmas market, where a lot of people were still bustling during the day, in the evening there were only three snow-covered graces, three beautiful women. They have nowhere to hurry, no one is waiting for them at home. And here, at the Christmas market...
A man whose parents were killed and whose estate was confiscated during Soviet times returns to his ancestral village to build a school for disabled children.
Made in wartime and edited in candlelight, Vartanov's rarely-seen masterpiece tells about his friendship with the genius Parajanov who was imprisoned by KGB "at the height of his fame ". Vartanov resurrects the riveting scenes from his banned 1969 film The Color of Armenian Land, where Paradjanov concocts the chef-d'oeuvre The Color of Pomegranates - widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time - then reveals the shocking request Parajanov sent him in unpublished 1974 letters from Ukrainian prisons. Vartanov's camera documents Parajanov's staggering last day at work in 1990 during the making of the unfinished Confession - which survives in The Last Spring - as Parajanov comments on this cherished autobiographical film. The foremost achievement of The Last Spring, emphasized by critics, is Vartanov's exquisite wordless montage that "evoked the very soul" of Parajanov and earned the praise of many of cinema's greatest masters, such as Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola.
A meeting with a Georgian guy distracts a hopelessly ill girl from her worries. With the help of his parents, they go to Israel for a medical consultation.
Hiding from the police captain, a prostitute ends up in the room of a quiet, modest pianist from the United States who takes part in a competition in the resort town by the sea. The naive young man gets carried away by a pretty and cheerful girl. In turn, she finds great, sincere love.
Sofiko Chiaureli was born on May 21, 1937 in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, USSR [now Republic of Georgia]. She was an actress, known for Sayat Nova (1969), Rats ginakhavs, vegar nakhav (1965) and Veris ubnis melodiebi (1973). She was married to Kote Makharadze and Giorgi Shengelaia. She died on March 2, 2008 in Tbilisi, Georgia.
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