Ivan PERESTIANI
Иван ПЕРЕСТИАНИ
Ivan PERESTIANI
USSR (Georgia), 1924, 160mn 
Black and white, silent, fiction
Three lives
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Три жизни

 

 Trois vies

 Tri zhizni

Other titles : Sami sitsotskhle
 
Directed by : Ivan PERESTIANI (Иван ПЕРЕСТИАНИ)
Writing credits : Ivan PERESTIANI (Иван ПЕРЕСТИАНИ)
 
Cast
Nato VACHNADZE (Нато ВАЧНАДЗЕ) ...Esma
Mikhail GELOVANY (Михаил ГЕЛОВАНИ) ...Bakhva
Dmitry KIPIANI (Дмитрий КИПИАНИ) ...Eremya
Tamara BOLKVADZE (Тамара БОЛКВАДЗЕ)
Konstantin MIKABERIDZE (Константин МИКАБЕРИДЗЕ)
 
Cinematography : Aleksandr DIGMELOV (Александр ДИГМЕЛОВ)
Production design : Semyon GUBIN-BUN (Семён ГУБИН-БУН)
Production : Goskinoprom Gruzii
Restauration : 1966
Release date in Russia : 21/01/1925
 
Language Géorgien

Plot synopsis
Late 19th century. The shepherd Bakhva goes to town and successfully launches into business. He wants to marry Esma who was courted by Prince Jeremiah Tsarba. He kills the girl. Bakhva goes in search of Jeremiah, finds him and has him arrested. But Jéremia is freed thanks to his sister, Valida, who seduced the governor and the prosecutor. Bakhva then decides to take justice into his own hands by murdering Jeremiah.
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Les origines du cinéma soviétique : un regard neuf, Myriam TSIKOUNAS, Cerf, 1992
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Georgian films on kinoglaz.fr, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023