Voyage of the Young Composer (1985) Akhalgazrda kompozitoris mogzauroba
Voyage of the Young Composer (1985)
DVDRip | MKV | 716x572 | x264 @ 2000 Kbps | 99 min | 1,70 Gb
Audio: Русский AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps | Subs: English (embedded in MKV)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
DVDRip | MKV | 716x572 | x264 @ 2000 Kbps | 99 min | 1,70 Gb
Audio: Русский AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps | Subs: English (embedded in MKV)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director: Giorgi Shengelaia (as Giorgi Shengelaya)
Writers: Erlom Akhvlediani, Otar Chkeidze (novel)
Stars: Gia Peradze, Levan Abashidze, Zura Kipshidze
The year is 1907 and tensions are running high in the Eastern Georgian countryside, with the Tsar's cossacks seeking to crush any further insurrection. Nikusha, the young composer, drifts innocently into the area to record the music of the local peasants. Accompanied by the boisterous Leko, who's convinced that he's connected with the underground, he makes his appointed rounds on the nobility, who go about their business like extras in a George Romero feature. Leko, swaggering and spitting, leering and swearing, stomping his feet and chewing with his mouth open (all before dinner is served), quickly inspires the wrath of his grey hosts…Shengelaya meticulously records the events of the pair's mysterious adventure, but sadly neglects the spectator. A lot is happening but there's very little to see, apart from Leko's (Peradze's) embarrassing performance.
A poem. About travel and the colors of a world, about the shadows of revolution, about a young composer victim of a strange universe. In fact, images of a society's death. A film about nuances of hope and expectation. As an old song about twilight, ancient words and dreams as smoke birds. For me this movie was wrapped in the end of Levan Abashidze. So, the music of Mahler, the remarks of characters, the music as soul of Georgian Euridice who must be saved the search of happiness, the fear as water of another Styx, the stone faces of women, the chain of victims, the gray soul of every frame, the pieces of Visconti's filmography are bricks of a deep "memento mori". A beautiful homage to a lost space.
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Voyage of the Young Composer (1985) Akhalgazrda kompozitoris mogzauroba
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