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Veriko Andjaparidze | ... |
Fortune Teller
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Tamari Tsitsishvili |
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Dudukhana Tserodze | ... |
Osman-Agha's Mother
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Dodo Abashidze | ... |
Osman-Agha /
Simon
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Sofiko Chiaureli | ... |
Vardo
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Zura Kipshidze | ... |
Durmish-Khan
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Levan Uchaneishvili | ... |
Zurab
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M. Abaishvili |
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Leila Alibegashvilli | ... |
Young Vardo
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G. Ambartsumov |
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Mzia Arabuli | ... |
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L. Arzhanov |
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T. Arzhanov |
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Paata Baratashvili | ... |
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Gia Burjanadze | ... |
(as G. Burdzhanadze)
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A film version of a well-known Georgian folk-tale. A young boy has to be immured into the walls of a fortress in order to stop it from crumbling to pieces. Written by Jonathon Dabell <J.D.@pixie.ntu.ac.uk>
Paradjanov made four films for which he is best known: Shadows Of Forgotten Ancestors and Color Of Pomegranates in the sixties; Legend Of Surami Fortress and Ashik Kerib in the eighties. In case you don't already know, between the sixties and the eighties he spent over a decade in a Soviet prison. I find this to be the strongest and most hypnotic one of the bunch, made soon after his release. One should take advantage of any opportunity to see these on the big screen.