Nicolas, a Georgian filmmaker who wants nothing more than to express himself. He leaves his country for France.

Chantrapas.2010.576p.BDRip-AVC.ZONE.mkv

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Runtime: 	2 h 7 min
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https://nitro.download/view/B6BCB94E74D7BE8/Chantrapas.2010.576p.BDRip-AVC.ZONE.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English, Japanese

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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 world. Despite the familiar premise, this surprisingly unsentimental film by Georgian director Otar Ioselliani has several things going for it, beginning with the cinematography and including the natural and unaffected (non-professional) performances of the villagers.

Then There Was Light.1989.576p.BDRip-AVC.ZONE.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 45 min
Size: 	2.38 GiB
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#1:  	French 2.0ch AC-3 @ 224 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/4359D10FD58FA4B/Then_There_Was_Light.1989.576p.BDRip-AVC.ZONE.mkv

Language(s):Diola, French (in places)
Subtitles:French (Intertitles), English, Japanese

The post Otar Iosseliani – Et la lumière fut AKA And Then There Was Light (1989) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
“Chasing Butterflies” examines the strange whims and peccadilloes of a group of eccentrics who reside in a small French town. There’s an alcoholic priest, the assorted residents of a now-decrepit chateau, and a variety of unusual guests who stop by. Events come to a head when Sophie, the rambunctious cousin of the chateau’s owner, passes away… creating a battle among the potential heirs for her money and possessions.

La Chasse Aux Papillons.1992.576p.BDRip-AVC.ZONE.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 57 min
Size: 	2.65 GiB
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#1:  	French 2.0ch AC-3 @ 224 kb/s (Stereo)

https://nitro.download/view/D815B57003D3D22/La_Chasse_Aux_Papillons.1992.576p.BDRip-AVC.ZONE.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English, Japanese

The post Otar Iosseliani – La chasse aux papillons AKA Chasing Butterflies (1992) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

იყო შაშვი მგალობელი
Iko shashvi mgalobeli

Preface to the film script (googletranslated) wrote:
…The story we intend to tell will fall into the genre of dramatic comedy, or, if we can reverse the notion, that of comic drama. Among the questions that have attracted our attention, the most important and oldest seems to us to be that of self-realization, of man facing his earthly destiny. We are deeply convinced that this question remains as present today as ever.…Some people, because of social contingencies or more probably because human nature is that way, deploy frenetic physical and mental activity throughout their lives without ever achieving anything. We did not try to establish statistics to determine the frequency of such a phenomenon, we simply looked around us, and what we noticed plunged us into deep sadness: there you are, people are living, everyone He has only one life, and many people do not realize how quickly time passes. They do not realize that their memory has not retained a single memory of an act of the slightest importance in their life… « Not now, later. » they say to themselves, and one fine day, a brick falls on their head and life is over.
(declaration of intent to the state industry of Soviet Georgia, Positif, n°476, October 2000)

Iko shashvi mgalobeli aka Once lived a song-thrush - Otar Iosseliani (1970).mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 21 min
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https://nitro.download/view/F344FB0AD2640A0/Iko_shashvi_mgalobeli_aka_Once_lived_a_song-thrush_-_Otar_Iosseliani_(1970).mkv

Language(s):Georgian, a bit of Russian
Subtitles:English, French

The post Otar Iosseliani – Iko shashvi mgalobeli aka Once Lived a Song-Thrush (1970) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

PLOT: “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.” – Otar Ioseliani

Sept.pieces.pour.cinema.noir.et.blanc.1983.Otar.Iosseliani.576p.BluRay.AAC2.0.x264.mkv

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Runtime: 	21 min 29 s
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https://nitro.download/view/9CFFA53176FA25C/Sept.pieces.pour.cinema.noir.et.blanc.1983.Otar.Iosseliani.576p.BluRay.AAC2.0.x264.mkv

Language(s):None
Subtitles:none

The post Otar Iosseliani – Sept pièces pour cinéma noir et blanc aka Letter from a Filmmaker. Seven Pieces on Black & White Cinema (1983) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

ძველი ქართული სიმღერა
PLOT: 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 not-so-distant past that coexists with the world we might know yet transports us to what used to be.

https://nitro.download/view/1A7935E98035C6B/Dzveli.qartuli.simgera.AKA.Georgian.Ancient.Songs.1969.Otar.Iosseliani.576p.BluRay.AAC2.0.x264.mkv

Language(s):none
Subtitles:English

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Quote:
The intertwining storylines of an art dealer, a thief, a police chief inspector, a gun dealer, an inventor, a beautician, several bums, and a crazy old man play out as an 18th century chinaware set and a 19th century portrait pass in and out of their hands. This absurd, hilarious, intricate and surreal cinematic Rubiks cube examines the bizarre twists of fate that draw people and possessions together and apart.

Otar Iosseliani - (1984) Favorites of the Moon.mkv

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Runtime: 	1h 42mn
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#1:  	French 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 Kbps

https://nitro.download/view/85B8B2EDD6C0F5D/Otar_Iosseliani_-_(1984)_Favorites_of_the_Moon.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

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