The President is a Georgian film co-written and directed by by the Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf. (The other co-writer is his wife, Marzieh Makhmalbaf.)
Mikheil Gomiashvili stars as His Majesty the President. The brilliant child actor Dachi Orvelashvili stars as his grandson.
Although director Makhmalbaf doesn't specify the country in which this movie is set, it has to be more than coincidence that he is Iranian, and the notoriously cruel Shah of Iran was overthrown by a revolution.
The movie begins with an act of almost casual cruelty by The President. It takes off from there as the revolution begins. Every turn of the plot is powerful and unpredictable. The film grabs you and doesn't let you go for a moment. I can't remember seeing a movie that was so hard to watch and so impossible not to watch.
Like almost all films, The President would work better on the large screen. However, it worked well enough on DVD. This is a movie that you just don't want to miss. It has a solid IMDb rating of 7.4. I think it's even better than that--I rated it 10.
Mikheil Gomiashvili stars as His Majesty the President. The brilliant child actor Dachi Orvelashvili stars as his grandson.
Although director Makhmalbaf doesn't specify the country in which this movie is set, it has to be more than coincidence that he is Iranian, and the notoriously cruel Shah of Iran was overthrown by a revolution.
The movie begins with an act of almost casual cruelty by The President. It takes off from there as the revolution begins. Every turn of the plot is powerful and unpredictable. The film grabs you and doesn't let you go for a moment. I can't remember seeing a movie that was so hard to watch and so impossible not to watch.
Like almost all films, The President would work better on the large screen. However, it worked well enough on DVD. This is a movie that you just don't want to miss. It has a solid IMDb rating of 7.4. I think it's even better than that--I rated it 10.