Lana Gogoberidze Movies
Lana Gogoberidze is a prolific director whose films primarily focus on the realistic, nonsentimental, portrayal of women's lives. Before enrolling in the State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow, she attended the University of Tbilisi where she had originally planned on becoming a literary scholar. She wrote her doctoral thesis on American poet Walt Whitman. Upon graduating from VGIK, she made her first feature film, Pod odnim nebom (1961). Her first film to gain international recognition was Neskolko interviu po lichnym voprosam (1979). In 1984, her film Den Dlinnee nochi was entered into the Cannes Film Festival by her government. In 1986 her film Krugovorot won the director's award at the Tokyo Film Festival. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- 1986
In a deliberately unhurried manner, this film tells a story of an actress' family life. She has a husband, a lovely child, and a comfortable life. On the surface, she has a lot of understanding friends. Gradually, the film shifts from a lyrical mood to a more sober and exact portrait of the people and their time. This film won a "Best Director" Award at the Tokyo Film Festival. The manner in which the story is told is somewhat disconcerting, as its episodes are intentionally put together in a way which makes them seem as if they are happening to completely unconnected people. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Leyla Abashidze, Liya Eliava, (more)
- 1984
This somber story of love lost forever is set against the backdrop of the changes that Communism brought to the state of Georgia in the former USSR after the 1917 Revolution. Eva (Daredzhan Kharshiladze as young Eva and Tamara Skhirtladze as an older Eva) and Archil are deeply in love, and as they bathe in a river together, they pledge to be with each other always. After they marry, Archil dies suddenly and Eva is left alone and childless. Along comes the ruthless Spiridon (Guram Pirtskhalava) who romances Eva and marries her - though his cold and cruel spirit break Eva's naturally buoyant self, until she sullenly eats alone, and avoids intimacy with her husband as much as possible. They adopt a daughter, who does not take sides between her glum mother and silent father. When the Communist cadres enter their village to promote the ideals of the October revolution, Eva starts to warm to her husband a little because he joins in that movement. Then her husband commits the fatal error of revealing a previous crime - an error that will later cause their grown daughter to question her parents' strange behavior. Director Lana Gogoberidze might have served her purpose better if she had introduced some levening - a bit of laughter or light-hearted interludes to balance the heavy load of emotional endurance her protagonists bear throughout the film. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Daredzhan Kharshiladze, Tamara Skhirtladze, (more)
- 1979
This film won the Grand Prize of the All-Union Film Festival, State Prize of USSR. Sofiko Chiaureli plays a newspaperwoman whose job requires her to travel about with a photographer interviewing people whose letters to the newspaper seem interesting and socially significant. When confronted by a choice between dealing with a philandering husband's derelictions or her much more interesting career, she chooses the career and becomes herself the kind of woman she has been interviewing. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Sofiko Chiaureli, Giya Badridze, (more)
- 1976
In this musical comedy from Soviet Georgia, a local girl who made good in the theater is returning to help celebrate a cooking festival. Now a great lady of the theater, she is not above staging a convincing deathbed scene in order to help her daughter's love-life along. In the meantime, people have gathered from all over the region to compete as cooks and to eat glorious food. One of the highlights of the film is its use of typical music and dances of the region. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Sofiko Chiaureli
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