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Otar Ioseliani

Otar Ioseliani

Otar Iosseliani (Georgian: ოთარ იოსელიანი, born 2 February 1934) is a Georgian-film maker. He was born in the Georgian capital city of Tbilisi, where he studied at the Tbilisi State Conservatoire and graduated in 1952 with a diploma in composition, conducting and piano.

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Movies Made By Otar Ioseliani (22)

Winter Song (2015)

Two old friends have urban adventures connected to the skull of an executed French aristocrat. ...

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Chantrapas (2011)

A filmmaker finds creative freedom more elusive than he imagined in this ironic comedy-drama. Tired of the state-appointed producers and censorship in his homeland, Soviet Georgia, Niko decides to move to France, only to find that he has merely traded one ...

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Gardens in Autumn (2006)

When he loses his position as a powerful government minister, Vincent is dropped by his pretty mistress and must begin life anew, without the privileges of power. As he gradually becomes acquainted with milieus which he d either forgotten or never known an ...

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Eletrodoméstica (2005)

A middle-class family living in a house filled with superfluous electronic appliances see the arrival of a new item, a 29" TV-set. ...

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Monday Morning (2002)

Vincent lives in a village, along the Rhône. Every morning he goes to the factory to work, and in the evening he takes care of his family. One day, he decides to go on a trip with the money given by his father. ...

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Farewell, Home Sweet Home (1999)

Nicholas is the eldest son of a wealthy suburban family, whose businesswoman mother makes deals from a helicopter and has an affair with her business partner. His cheerful, alcoholic father, on the other hand, is reduced to a prisoner in his room with his ...

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Brigands, Chapter VII (1996)

A witty, despairing French-Russian-Italian-Swiss art movie set in 16th-century Georgia, Stalinist Georgia, contemporary Georgia, and contemporary Paris, featuring the same set of actors in all four settings. ...

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Georgia, Alone (1995)

The horrific war in Chechnya, a neighbor of Georgia, gives a special poignancy to Otar Iosseliani's fascinating, four-hour, made-for-television documentary on Georgia which, like his delightful Chasing Butterflies (SFIFF 1993), was produced in France. Ioss ...

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Chasing Butterflies (1992)

Two old ladies live in a French chateau. When one of them dies, her sister, who lives in Moscow, inherits the property, which soon ends up in the hands of Japanese businessmen. ...

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And Then There Was Light (1989)

Events in an idyllic African village are shown in detail in the period just before logging trucks come in and cut down the forest around the villagers, forcing them to move into the wretched shantytowns that surround major cities throughout the undeveloped ...

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A Little Monastery in Tuscany (1988)

It is a brief documentary which records the life of five Augustinian monks in the little monastery of Castelnuovo dell'Abate, a Tuscan village, as well as the everyday life of people in the small town, from farmers to meat-hackers, from wine-makers to wild ...

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Favourites of the Moon (1985)

A porcelain table service and a painting from the 19th century pass from hand to hand and deteriorate over time, sealing the fate of different characters who cross paths in Paris. ...

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Sept pièces pour cinéma noir et blanc (1983)

"Before we started work on the film "Les Favoris de la Lune" , I tried to capture on film my first impressions of the city and the people who inhabit it. This etude of Paris, slightly shortened, was shown on television. ...

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Euskadi, Summer 1982 (1983)

Part of a series in which foreign filmmakers portray a region or town in France. Otar Iosselani looks at the Basque region and its inhabitants. ...

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Pastorale (1975)

In the mountain village comes a group of young musicians in Tbilisi. Here they are going to relax and rehearse. Sad story about the final rupture occurred, the peasants do not sing beautiful old songs, the musicians play music incomprehensible to them ... ...

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There Once Was a Singing Blackbird (1970)

Gia is a carefree young percussionist who works at a theater in Tbilisi, capital of Georgia. He lives in a small apartment with his mother. Gia spends his days flitting from friend to friend, lover to lover, avoiding any responsibility, and never staying s ...

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Georgian Ancient Songs (1969)

Under the premise of documenting for the sake of preservation the various forms of Georgian religious chanting, a distinct kind of sonorous psalmody passed over from generation to generation, what Otar Iosseliani captures in reality is the snapshot of a no ...

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Falling Leaves (1966)

A young worker takes a job at a local state run winery only to discover and become disillusioned by the corruption of the Soviet State. ...

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Cast Iron (1964)

Documentary of the Rustavi Metal Works, in the country of Georgia. ...

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April (1963)

A critique of materialism, the film is about a young couple who live in a rundown empty apartment. Their love is so strong that it makes the water flow and the electricity work, but when they start purchasing furniture and knickknacks, they fight and grow ...

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Sapovnela (1959)

Amidst the hills of the ancient city of Mtskheta, an aging man nearing his hundredth year is forced to make way for a new road being paved through the blossoming garden of floral delights that he loves and cares for. ...

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Watercolor (1958)

A man tries to escape from his wife in order to visit an exhibition, where he sees a painting representing his own house. ...

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Movies Starring Otar Ioseliani (11)

Sacrifices of Andrei Tarkovsky (2012)

Dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Andrei Tarkovsky. The film uses unique materials related to the years Tarkovsky spent in Italy, personal accounts of friends and professionals, the shooting locations of his films, to what degree his works reflects his ...

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Gardens in Autumn (2006)

When he loses his position as a powerful government minister, Vincent is dropped by his pretty mistress and must begin life anew, without the privileges of power. As he gradually becomes acquainted with milieus which he d either forgotten or never known an ...

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Otar Iosseliani, le merle siffleur (2006)

Georgian director Otar Iosseliani prepares his film Jardins en Automne. Nothing is conventional in the filmmaker's system: Julie Bertuccelli portrays the gestation and production of a film that seems to follow the freest and most unpredictable poetic intui ...

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Monday Morning (2002)

Vincent lives in a village, along the Rhône. Every morning he goes to the factory to work, and in the evening he takes care of his family. One day, he decides to go on a trip with the money given by his father. ...

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Farewell, Home Sweet Home (1999)

Nicholas is the eldest son of a wealthy suburban family, whose businesswoman mother makes deals from a helicopter and has an affair with her business partner. His cheerful, alcoholic father, on the other hand, is reduced to a prisoner in his room with his ...

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Son of Gascogne (1995)

You're a provincial kid in Paris and suddenly you're the center of attention: Movie stars, famous directors and sexy women are doting on you because they all think you're the son of their long-dead legendary friend. You never knew your dad, but the facts o ...

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The Exile and Death of Andrei Tarkovsky (1988)

A documentary about the life of Andrei Tarkovsky in exile in Western Europe including Italy, Sweden, Germany and France until his sad demise to a fatal cancer. ...

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Sept pièces pour cinéma noir et blanc (1983)

"Before we started work on the film "Les Favoris de la Lune" , I tried to capture on film my first impressions of the city and the people who inhabit it. This etude of Paris, slightly shortened, was shown on television. ...

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Falling Leaves (1966)

A young worker takes a job at a local state run winery only to discover and become disillusioned by the corruption of the Soviet State. ...

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Story of Young Girl (1960)

An Young, inexperiences girl had decided to live in the countryside, but she can't find her place among gloomy, unfriendly locals, Can't manage to do her job well. and decides to return to the city. However, her family thinks that her return would be inapp ...

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Watercolor (1958)

A man tries to escape from his wife in order to visit an exhibition, where he sees a painting representing his own house. ...

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