Country:France, Georgia

Director:Otar Ioselliani

Program:Parralel Pathways

Summary:

Otar Ioselliani offers up a feast of parallel activity to dice up his trenchant political satire. The movie takes place, like Griffith’s Intolerance, during four periods of time in Ioselliani’s native country of Georgia: in the Middle Ages, in the early 1900s, during the Soviet Stalinist period and in the chaos of the early 90’s Soviet dissolution. The same actors play different characters at different periods of time. The actor playing a medieval king returns as a Stalinist henchman and again as a contemporary smuggler.