“The Obstinate Neighbors ” ( Georgian ჭირვეული მეზობლები ) is a comedy film by Georgian director Shot Managadze , scripted by George Mdivani , shot at the Tbilisi film studio in 1945. The film was not released for all-Union distribution and was released only on the republican screens of the GSSR on November 1, 1945 [1] .
| Obstinate neighbors | |
|---|---|
| cargo. ჭირვეული მეზობლები | |
| Genre | Comedy |
| Producer | Shota Managadze |
| Author script | George Mdivani |
| In the main cast | Alexander Zhorzholiani Shalva Gambashidze Cecilia Tsutsunava |
| Composer | David Toradze |
| Film company | Tbilisi film studio |
| Duration | 75 min |
| A country |  the USSR |
| Year | 1945 |
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Content
- 1 Synopsis
- 2 Cast
- 3 Camera crew
- 4 reviews
- 5 notes
- 6 Literature
- 7 References
Synopsis
The film takes place during the Great Patriotic War in a Georgian village. Two collective farm foremen, Amiran and Gramiton, are constantly competing with each other. Despite the wartime, things are going well with them. Once Gramiton, in order to furnish Amiran, gives the state a large sum: for himself and for his neighbor. In response, Amiran buys for his own money a plane to his son-pilot Gramiton. When a telegram arrives from the front, Amiran mistakenly believes that this is a message about the death of Gramiton's son, and tries to hide the sad news from that. In the end, a mistake is discovered, and at the same time, a deep friendship is revealed that connects the two obstinate neighbors.
Cast
The film starred [1] :
- Alexander Zhorzholiani - Amiran
- Shalva Gambashidze - Gramiton
- Cecilia Tsutsunawa - Ashes, Amiran’s wife
Camera crew
Worked on the film [1] :
- screenwriter: George Mdivani
- Stage Director: Shota Managadze
- operator: Yuri Ryshkov
- artist: Serapion Vatsadze
- composer: David Toradze
- sound engineer: R. Kezeli
Reviews
The film received a low rating, primarily from the leadership of the state. Stalin, who watched the film first, left without waiting for its end. Party and ministerial leadership: Zhdanov , Aleksandrov , Bolshakov - in 1946, in a memorandum, they described him as done "primitively and badly" [2] . Criticism also noted shortcomings: the absurdity of the characters, the simplicity and implausibility of situations, the lack of integrity of the picture. Nevertheless, against the backdrop of a frankly weak scenario, Mdivani’s directing and the actors ’play, which animated the action in the traditions of Georgian comedy, received a positive assessment. [3]
The film was not released for all-Union distribution and was released only on the republican screens of the GSSR on November 1, 1945 [1] .
Failure with the film, which became the first independent work experience for Shota Managadze, seriously affected the future fate of the director. For 10 years, he refused to create his own work in cinema: his next film, “Masters of Georgian Ballet,” was released only in 1956. Soon other films followed, including The Last of Sabudar (1958), which became virtually the creative rehabilitation of Managadze [3] [2] .
In 1966, the director’s son, Nodar Managadze, re-edited the film [4] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Soviet feature films, 1961 , p. 358.
- ↑ 1 2 Bulletin . - 1996. - S. 27. - 604 p.
- ↑ 1 2 History of Soviet cinema . - Art, 1975 .-- S. 204. - 328 p.
- ↑ kakula. May 7th. Developments... . Discussion on LiveInternet - Russian Service Online Diaries . www.liveinternet.ru. Date of treatment April 9, 2016.
Literature
- Soviet feature films. Annotated catalog (Russian) / Comp. I. A. Glagoleva, M. H. Zack, A. V. Macheret, and others; under the editorship of A.V. Macheret. - M .: Art , 1961. - T. 2: Sound films (1930-1957). - 784 p. - 3000 copies.
Links
- Obstinate neighbors on the site "Encyclopedia of domestic cinema"