Trip of Young Composer

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Georgi SHENGELAIA

Георгий ШЕНГЕЛАЯ

Gueorgui CHENGUELAIA

USSR (Georgia), 1985, 105 mn

Colour, fiction

Trip of Young Composer

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Путешествие молодого композитора

Le Voyage d’un jeune compositeur

Puteshestviye molodogo kompozitora

Trip of Young Composer

Other titles : Akhalgazrda kompozitoris mogzauroba (original title)

Directed by : Georgi SHENGELAIA (Георгий ШЕНГЕЛАЯ)

Writing credits : Erlom AKHVLEDIANY (Эрлом АХВЛЕДИАНИ), Georgi SHENGELAIA (Георгий ШЕНГЕЛАЯ)

Cast

Levan ABASHIDZE (Леван АБАШИДЗЕ)

Lili IOSELIANI (Лили ИОСЕЛИАНИ)

Teimuraz JAPARIDZE (Теймураз ДЖАПАРИДЗЕ)

Zurab KIPSHIDZE (Зураб КИПШИДЗЕ)

Giya PERADZE (Гия ПЕРАДЗЕ)

Cinematography : Levan PAATASHVILI (Леван ПААТАШВИЛИ)

Production design : Georgi SHENGELAIA (Георгий ШЕНГЕЛАЯ), Boris TSKHAKAYA (Борис ЦХАКАЯ)

Sound : Vilgelm GOGICHAYSHVILI (Вильгельм ГОГИЧАЙШВИЛИ)

Production : Grouzia-Film

Awards :

Best directing Berlin International Film Festival : Berlinale, Berlin (Germany), 1986

Premier prix et Prix de la meilleure image au Festival national de l'Union Soviétique, 1985

Plot synopsis

The film depicts the post 1905 revolution period. Reactionary forces oppose the free mind and quell any attempt to progress. Intellectuals and patriots are being severely persecuted and killed. The people want to move forward from this quagmire but are frightened into inactivity waiting for the savior. Nikusha, a young composer, who comes to collect the folk songs, is taken as a conspirator. Nikusha and his friend Leko Tatasheli get right into the center of the developments. Leko, who assumes the fabricated crime, commits suicide. The intellectuals are put together and massacred.
Source : The Georgian National Film Center

Selected in the following festivals :

- Retrospectives : brothers Shengelaya - Mikhail Kobakhidze, Paris (France), 2005

- Berlin International Film Festival : Berlinale, Berlin (Germany), 1986

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