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Iosseliani’s brutal comic masterpiece received the Special Jury Prize at the 53rd Venice International Film Festival. There are a set of stories from a bloody medieval ruler, a petty thief who rises to the top of the communist party in Soviet-ruled Georgia, a down and out drunk in the Georgian civil war of the nineties to Georgian gun dealers in Paris.
We see the film being projected for a special audience with the reels out of order by a drunken projectionist. Flashing between different eras and with the use of the same actors throughout, the film philosophises about the proposition that not much has really changed.
The screening will be introduced by director Julie Bertucelli