Otyets soldata
USSR,
1964, 83 min
Shown in 1965
CREDITS
- dir
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Rezo Chkheidze
- scr
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Suliko Zhgenty, Rezo Chkheide
- cam
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Lev Sukhov, Arcguk Filipashvily
- editor
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Vasili Dolenko
- mus
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Sulkhan Tsintsadze
- cast
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Sergo Zaqariadze, Vladimir Privaltsev, Aleksandr Nazarov, Aleksandr Lebedev, Yuri Drozdov, Vladimir Kolokoltsev
- prod co
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Qartuli Pilmi
- source
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Sovexportfilm
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COMMENTS
Rezo Chkheidze in person.
OTHER
The adventures of a gnarled old Georgian wine grower who sets out to visit his son at a front line hospital during the last phases of World War II. Ironically, the old man gets caught up in the fighting, donning a soldier’s uniform and becoming a tragic figure in the atmosphere of war. This is a sensitively filmed and unforgettably charming work that makes its antiwar plea with knowledgeable compassion and humanism.
—Albert Johnson
FACTOID #81
Anjelica Huston was the first recipient of the Piper-Heidsieck Award in 1991. When Huston received the prize from the champagne maker, she joked, “Can I drink it?”
