Irakli KVIRIKADZE
Ираклий КВИРИКАДЗЕ
Irakli KVIRIKADZE
USSR (Georgia), 1981, 73mn 
Colour, fiction
Plovets
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Пловец

 

 The Swimmer

 Le Nageur

Other titles : Motsurave
 
Directed by : Irakli KVIRIKADZE (Ираклий КВИРИКАДЗЕ)
Writing credits : Irakli KVIRIKADZE (Ираклий КВИРИКАДЗЕ)
Based on www.imdb.com/title/tt0083147/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_6;IMDb
 
Cast
Elguja BURDULI (Элгуджа БУРДУЛИ) ...Dourmichkhan Doumbadze
Ruslan MIKABERIDZE (Руслан МИКАБЕРИДЗЕ) ...Domenti Doumbadze
Guram PIRTSKHALAVA (Гурам ПИРЦХАЛАВА) ...Odissei
Baadur TSULADZE (Баадур ЦУЛАДЗЕ) ...Anton Doumbadze
 
Cinematography : Guram TUGUSHI (Гурам ТУГУШИ)
Production design : Aleksandr JANSHIYEV (Александр ДЖАНШИЕВ)
Music : Teimuraz BAKURADZE (Теймураз БАКУРАДЗЕ)
Sound : Madonna TEVZADZE (Мадонна ТЕВЗАДЗЕ)
Companies : Gruzia-film
Release Date in Russia : 04/04/1982
 
Site : IMDb

Plot synopsis
A parable about those who overcome insurmountable difficulties or 22 short stories about swimmers. A movie is being filmed about Durmishkhan Dumbadze’s unknown swimming record when he crossed the distance twice the width of the Strait of Dover and thus beat the record of the famous English sportsman Thomas Winston. The story of the Durmishkhan family continues and now his son and grandson have a chance to cross their Strait of Dover.
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Georgian films on kinoglaz.fr, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2009

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