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Tengiz ABULADZE

Тенгиз АБУЛАДЗЕ

Tenguiz ABOULADZE

USSR, 1967, 77 mn

Black and white, fiction

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Мольба

L'Incantation

Molba

Other titles : Vedreba

Directed by : Tengiz ABULADZE (Тенгиз АБУЛАДЗЕ)

Writing credits : Tengiz ABULADZE (Тенгиз АБУЛАДЗЕ), Rezo KVESELAVA (Резо КВЕСЕЛАВА), Anzor SALUKVADZE (Анзор САЛУКВАДЗЕ)

Cast

Tengiz ARCHVADZE (Тенгиз АРЧВАДЗЕ) ...Alouda

Spartak BAGASHVILI (Спартак БАГАШВИЛИ) ...Khvtissia

Ramaz CHKHIKVADZE (Рамаз ЧХИКВАДЗЕ) ...Matsil

Larisa DANILINA (Лариса ДАНИЛИНА) ...Voix

Rusudan KIKNADZE (Русудан КИКНАДЗЕ) ...Deva

Irakli UCHANEISHVILI (Ираклий УЧАНЕЙШВИЛИ) ...Voix

Cinematography : Aleksandr ANTIPENKO (Александр АНТИПЕНКО)

Production design : Revaz MIRZASHVILI (Реваз МИРЗАШВИЛИ)

Music : Nodar GABUNIYA (Нодар ГАБУНИЯ)

Sound : Mikhail NIZHARADZE (Михаил НИЖАРАДЗЕ)

Production : Grouzia-Film

Release date in Russia : 1968

Awards :
Premier prix au Festival du film d'auteur de San-Remo, 1974

DVD with subtitles

Editeur : Ruscico

Plot synopsis

Based on the poems «Aluda Ketelauri«, «Guest and Host» by Vazha Pshavela (translated by Nikolai Zabolotsky). The devil Matsil, the Khevsur Khvtisia and the beautiful Maiden are having an argument about man, death and immortality, good and evil. Life alternately confirms and disproves their judgments. The strife between Khevsurs and Kistins, laws of blood feud claim human lives. Indifference gives rise to thoughts of the pointlessness of human existence, selfless devotion adds power and strengthens hopes. Evil does not yield to good but to conscience.
Source : www.moscowfilmfestival.ru

Selected in the following festivals :

- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2008

- Festival ''East-West'', Die (France), 2006

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