FALLING LEAVES
Homage
Otar and Niko, two young engineers, work in a vineyard. The former is a careerist, the latter determined to do an honest day’s work that will reduce the impressive quotas achieved by the agricultural collective, for which fulfilling the plan is more important than quality. Deliberately erroneous reports regarding the state of the vineyards, a works inspection, Komsomol songs – the absurdity of everyday Soviet life stand in contrast to the ordered world of ancient traditions, the impressionistic studies of urban space. The film is embedded in a prologue – the ritual of the grape-harvest and thanksgiving. 1968: WEINERNTE / FALLING LEAVES: FIPRESCI Prize, Cannes Film Festival
GIORGOBISTVE (LISTOPAD) / DIE WEINERNTE
GSSR 1966 / 92 min
Director: Otar Iosseliani
- Screenplay: Amiran Chichinadze
- Cinematographer: Abessalom Maysuradze
- Cast: Ramaz Giorgobiani,Georgi Kharabadze,Marina Karcivadze
- Production Company: Grusia-Film - Georgia
- Rights Holder: Pierre Grise Productions - France
Otar and Niko, two young engineers, work in a vineyard. The former is a careerist, the latter determined to do an honest day’s work that will reduce the impressive quotas achieved by the agricultural collective, for which fulfilling the plan is more important than quality. Deliberately erroneous reports regarding the state of the vineyards, a works inspection, Komsomol songs – the absurdity of everyday Soviet life stand in contrast to the ordered world of ancient traditions, the impressionistic studies of urban space. The film is embedded in a prologue – the ritual of the grape-harvest and thanksgiving.
1968: WEINERNTE / FALLING LEAVES: FIPRESCI Prize, Cannes Film Festival
- Screenplay: Amiran Chichinadze
- Cinematographer: Abessalom Maysuradze
- Cast: Ramaz Giorgobiani,Georgi Kharabadze,Marina Karcivadze
- Production Company: Grusia-Film - Georgia
- Rights Holder: Pierre Grise Productions - France