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Review | My Grandmother — portraying the well-choreographed chaos of Soviet bureaucracy
Kote Mikaberidze’s 1929 slapstick satire My Grandmother is a brilliant piece of Soviet Georgian cinema still relevant today.ag
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Review | Blue Mountains, or Unbelievable Story — a satirical Georgian masterpiece
Eldar Shengelaia’s 1983 film, one of the sharpest satirical critiques of Soviet bureaucracy in existence, is a cinematic masterpiece
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Review | The Eccentrics — a goofy Georgian ode to freedom
The Eccentrics is by far Georgian director Eldar Shengelaia’s most absurdist and outright comedic film.
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Review | An Unusual Exhibition — a tragi-comedy on artistic individuality in Georgia
Eldar Shengelaia’s 1968 film is a layered parable on artistic individualism in the collectivist Soviet Union.
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Review | The White Caravan — Georgian pastoralism clashes with modernity
Eldar Shengelaia’s 1963 film is a visually alluring and emotional exploration of the age-old conflict between tradition and modernity.
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Review | People and Trees: A Trilogy — exploring boyhood in rural Soviet Azerbaijan
A collection of three novellas, People and Trees encapsulates the experiences of a boy growing up in post-World War II Azerbaijan.
