Metrograph

A program of the inspired early shorts that established Iosseliani at the forefront of a new, rising generation of Georgian filmmakers. Featuring Akvarel, in which a quarreling working-class couple experience a revelation at an art exhibition; Sapovnela, in which an old man who tends exquisite flower gardens in the hills around Mtskheta sees his life’s work threatened by the arrival of a new road; April, in which a young couple find their happiness dwindling as their comfort increases upon moving into a brand new, squeaky clean housing development, and Tudzhi (Cast Iron), a documentary description of life in an ironworks that singles out individuals on the factory floor not as symbols of thrumming Soviet industrial might, but as human beings.

Akvarel (Otar Iosseliani, 1958, 10 mins)

Sapovnela (Song About a Flower) (Otar Iosseliani, 1959, 18 mins)

April (Otar Iosseliani, 1962, 46 mins)

Tudzhi (Cast Iron) (Otar Iosseliani, 1963, 20 mins)

Distributor: Les Films du Losange