Tbilisi-Tbilisi (2005)

Director:

Levan Zaqareishvili

Writer:

Levan Zaqareishvili (writer)

Release Date:

14 July 2005 (Georgia)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

A young filmmaker named Dato has no money to make a movie, so he hangs out drinking and brooding all day in the capital of the former Soviet republic...

Plot Keywords:

Place Name In Title | Poverty | Director | Alcoholism | Repetition In Title

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Giorgi Maskharashvili	...	Dato
Eka Nijaradze
Rusiko Kobiashvili
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Berta Khapava
Dato Khurtsilava
Shota Qristesashvili
Baadur Tsuladze

Runtime:

France:107 min | Georgia:87 min

Country:

Georgia

Language:

French | Georgian

Color:

Color | Black and White

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Filming Locations:

Tbilisi, Georgia

Company:

National Centre of Cinematography of Georgia

Trivia:

Other festivals and awards: - "Nika"- Russian Film Academy Award 2006 - Cannes IFF(Directors ' Fortnight) 2005 - Black Sea IFF (Romania) Best Script Award 2005 - Eurasia IFF (Kazakhstan,Almaty) Special Jury Award 2005 - Best Directing Award, "An ELEPHANT"-special prize of the Guild of the Russian Film Critics Best Actor in a Supporting Role.- Festival of Cis Countries and Baltic States (KINOSHOCK) 2005 - IFF of Cinema Mediterraneen(Montpellier,France)-Best Music Award 2005 - "Golden Lily"-Grand Prize for the Best film (Wiesbuden,Germany) 2006 - Best Film Award Ashdod IFF (Israel)2006 Best Directing Award -Ashdod IFF (Israel)2006 - Best Film Award Best Directing Award -Ashdod IFF (Israel)2006 - Festival of Cis Countries and Baltic States(KINOSHOCK) 2005 Best Directing Award "An ELEPHANT"-special prize of the Guild of the Russian Film Critics Best Actor in a Supporting Role

An intensely harrowing drama in dire need of a wider audience

Bleak, oppressive, and utterly without hope, this was Georgia's submission to the Academy last year for Best Foreign Film. The story, such as it is, concerns a filmmaker writing a script, which we see played out in black-and-white segments throughout the film, as he travels around the city meeting friends and crooked politicians and getting beaten by the police because he fits the profile of a drug addict. Every scene is more harrowing than the one that came before it. This film depicts a Tbilisi of thieves, rapists, and drug addicts with corruption at every level of authority, on its last leg with a dying past and an aborted future. As a film it's not perfect, but its only real problems are mere technical issues like dialogue sync. It's definitely a powerful statement -- I suppose the reason it hasn't been distributed anywhere is simply because it's just too bleak. The very end of the credits read, in large Roman letters, "S.O.S."