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24 September 1972 (East Germany) morePlot Keywords:
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Strange biopic is well worth watching moreCast
(Credited cast) | Avtandil Varazi | ... | Nico Pirosmanichvili |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Dodo Abashidze | ||
| Givi Aleqsandria | ||
| Spartak Bagashvili | ||
| Teimuraz Beridze | ||
| Kote Daushvili | ||
| Margo Gvaramadze | ||
| Amir Kakabadze | ||
| Rosalia Mintshin | ||
| Z. Qaldani | ||
| Zura Qapianidze | ||
| Aleqsandre Rekhviashvili | ||
| Nino Seturidze | ||
| Boris Tsipuria | ||
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USA:85 min | Germany:105 minCountry:
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Finland:SFAQ
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This little known film is quite strange yet well worth watching. Made in 1969, it tells the story of one Nico Pirosmanishvilli or Pirosmani, a primitive Georgian painter, not very well known in the west, who lived at the turn of the last century. The movie shows his paintings (I must admit I was not terribly impressed by them), his proud poverty, his antisocial behavior. A lot of the movie is shot in sparse, mildly surreal tableaux. When he sets up a shop with his brother, for example, it is not located in the city, but in the middle of a plain. There are some fine shots of the old, dilapidated quarters of Tbilissi, where Pirosmani lived since middle age, barely making ends meet by painting in taverns. I don't know if there is a Caucasian school of film-making, but this film suggests a saner, decaffeinated Paradjanov (who, as a matter of fact, did film a short about Pirosmani).