Otar IOSSELIANI
Отар ИОСЕЛИАНИ
Otar IOSSELIANI
USSR, 1970, 83mn 
Black and white, fiction
There Once Was a Singing Blackbird
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Жил певчий дрозд

 

 Il était une fois un merle chanteur

 zhil pevchiy drozd

Other titles : Iko shashvi mgalobeli
 
Directed by : Otar IOSSELIANI (Отар ИОСЕЛИАНИ)
Writing credits : Dmitry ERISTAVI (Дмитрий ЭРИСТАВИ), Otar IOSSELIANI (Отар ИОСЕЛИАНИ), Semyon LUNGIN (Семён ЛУНГИН), Ilya NUSINOV (Илья НУСИНОВ)
 
Cast
Gela KANDELAKI (Гела КАНДЕЛАКИ) ...Giya Agladze
Gogi CKHEIDZE (Гоги ЧХЕИДЗЕ)
Djansug KAKHIDZE (Джансуг КАХИДЗЕ)
Irina DZHANDIERI (Ирина ДЖАНДИЕРИ)
Medeya JAPARIDZE (Медея ДЖАПАРИДЗЕ)
Marina KARTSIVADZE (Марина КАРЦИВАДЗЕ)
Kakhi KAVSADZE (Кахи КАВСАДЗЕ)
 
Cinematography : Abesalom MAISURADZE (Абесалом МАЙСУРАДЗЕ)
Production design : Dmitry ERISTAVI (Дмитрий ЭРИСТАВИ)
Sound : Tengiz NANOBASHVILI (Тенгиз НАНОБАШВИЛИ)
Production : Grouziafilm
 
Sites : Kinopoisk, IMDb

DVD with subtitles
Editor : Blaq Out. Titre : Otar Iosseliani.
Fait partie du coffret Iosseliani qui contient :Avril; La Chute des feuilles; Il était une fois un merle chanteur; Pastorale

Plot synopsis
Guy Agladze resides in a large city and plays in an orchestra. Guy has a number of friends and acquaintances. His days are hectic and busy. He has to manage too much and he is always late. His time, his energy, his talents evaporate in the hassle of the day and among the little things to be done. Guy dies in an accident without having managed to note down the music that his soul was playing in the rare moments of his solitude.
Source : www.lib.berkeley.edu/
 

Commentaries and bibliography
10 great Georgian films, bfi.org.uk, 2022
Signs of the Everyday in Post-Soviet Cinema, Liliia NEMCHENKO, kinokultura.com, 2011
Il était une fois un merle chanteur de Otar Iosséliani, Olivier BITOUN, dvdclassik.com, 2005
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Univerciné à l'Est, Nantes (France), 2024
- Russian Film Festival For Another Russia, Paris (France), 2024
- Window on Georgian Cinema, Orléans (France), 2024
- Vents d'Est au cinéma, Penmarc'h (France), 2024
- Festival des Cultures Est-Ouest. Un Weekend à l'Est, Paris (France), 2023
- Georgian films on kinoglaz.fr, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- Europe around Europe, Paris (France), 2022
- International Film Festival of the Commonwealth Countries "Moscow Premiere", Moscow (Russia), 2022
- , Paris (France), 2019
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2018
- Journées cinématographiques, Saint Denis (France), 2016
- Soirées du cinéma russe de Bordeaux, Bordeaux (France), 2016
- Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2015
- Film Festival Locarno, Locarno (Switzerland), 2013
- Cinéma Russie Institut Lumière, Lyon (France), 2012
- Munich International Film Festival, Munich (Germany), 2011
- Fribourg International Film Festival, Fribourg (Switzerland), 2011
- Festival of Central and Eastern Film , Wiesbaden (Germany), 2010
- Douarnenez Film Festival, Douarnenez (France), 2009
- Prague International Film Festival : Febiofest, Prague (Czech Republic), 2007
- Festival de Cannes, Cannes (France), 1974