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Posted By : jotarapidup | Date : 06 Feb 2010 07:52:40 | Comments : 1

Merab Kokochashvili - Didi mtsvane veli AKA Big Green Valley (1967)
1:20:25 Min | 720x480 | Xvid 1.551 kbps | 25 fps | Mp3 191 Kbps | 992 MB
Georgian | Subtitles: English .srt | Genre: Drama

Description: Didi mtsvane veli is a 1967 Family/Drama film directed by Merab Kokochashvili, starring Dodo Abashidze, Lia Kapanadze, Mzia Maglakelidze and written by Merab Eliozishvili.
Posted By : Avax | Date : 25 Dec 2009 12:40:00 | Comments : 22
UPDATED! Added DVD-Rip (itsartolie – big-thank you very much!)


Frankly speaking: never, and no film did not make me such a strong impression
(I left the theater and I was shaking – literally). But. First, it was in the early 90-ies.
Secondly, I was a young man with a Soviet mentality. And for this young man's movie was an absolute shock.
Therefore, it is difficult to say what you see in the film. However – I recommend.


Repentance (Monanieba, Pokayanie, Покаяние, მონანიება) DVD-9
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Repentance (Monanieba, Pokayanie, Покаяние, მონანიება)
DVD-9 | PAL 720 x 576 (4:3) MPEG2 | Audio: Dolby AC3, 6 Channels, 448 Kbps | 2h:24min | 8,01 Gb | Cover, Disc (400 dpi) | Video menu: Ru, En, Fr
Language: Russian, Georgian, French | Subtitles: Russian, English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portugese, Dutch, Swedish, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese
IMDB: 7.5/10 | Genre: Philosophical Drama, Art House | Studio: Qartuli Pilmi (USSR, Georgian SSR) | 1984 Year | Director: Tengiz Abuladze; Writers: Tengiz Abuladze, Nana Dzhanelidze
Cast: Avtandil Makharadze, Ya Ninidze, Zeinab Botsvadze, Ketevan Abuladze, Edisher Giorgobiani, Kakhi Kavsadze, Merab Ninidze, Nino Zaqariadze

“I First learned of this film as an accidental find at the local video rental shop in the foriegn film section. Now it's a top ten favorite film of mine for several reasons.
Stealthily made for Georgian/Russian television under Soviet era rule, it was “shelved” until 1986 when glasnost allowed it's release, just a couple of years prior to the breakup of the Soviet Union. Anyway, here it's shown in Fullscreen presentation as it was made, hence there is no such thing as a Widescreen version. Running time is complete (unedited) at about 154 minutes.

Repentance is a story within a story (three generations) which is also book-ended by a main charachter's brief musings leaving the viewer to wonder was this a momentary daydream or did all this actually happen? This does not give away the story or any suspense whatsoever.
Because of the multi-layered story, multiple charachters and involved plot most viewers including Georgian/Russian literates will be a bit lost on first viewing. So far I've watched it perhaps 9 or 10 times over the last decade and I'm still unraveling much of the story, charachters and dialogue. Now that I have it on DVD it will be viewed and disected over and over.

It's a complicated blend of social commentary, political nightmare, spiritual awareness, family disintegration, artistic/human freedom, surrealism, and even brief moments of (black)comedy.
The film's overall flow is like a dark drama and part Euro artfilm perhaps due to the surreal scenes and the unrushed filming/editing. This is not Hollywood product!
There's realy little or no “action” per se, and despite there being no blatant visual violence (or sex) I always leave this film as though I've lived through a mass of brutality and executions. Repentance carries some obvious political messages but it really asks the viewer to draw thier own conclusions and to think for thyself!

A fantastic, dark and thoughtful film that is as relevant and timeless as the viewer allows or chooses it to be.”Amazon.com

Repentance (Monanieba, Pokayanie, Покаяние, მონანიება) DVD-9
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Posted By : vizilo | Date : 19 Feb 2009 21:11:46 | Comments : 15

Tengiz Abuladze - Natvris Khe aka The Wishing Tree (1976)
DVD | 1:41:17 | Georgian/Russian with English s/t| Audio Track 1/2: Russian/Georgian | 1,85 : 1 | 5.49 Gb
Posted By : scalisto | Date : 24 Nov 2007 16:18:00 | Comments : 4

Kurz und schmerzlos (DVDrip - 1998)
German / Turkish / Greek / Serbo-Croatian | Subtitles: English and Spanish .srt | 94 min | XviD 608x336 | 1123 kb/s | 256 kb/s AC3 | 25 fps | 950 MB + 3% recovery record
Genre: Drama | MU/RS

Short Sharp Shock This film shows the life and fate of three young foreigners - Turk Gabriel, Greek Costa and Serb Bobby, all of them dreaming of love and money in the bleak surroundings of social welfare, crimes, industry, unemployment and cultural minorities. Of course it won't take long until the friendship of the three outsiders is about to break apart when Gabriel becomes a henchman for a local gangster boss, and a journey through violence and despair begins for all three of them...
Posted By : scalisto | Date : 26 Sep 2007 19:42:00 | Comments : 4

Depuis qu'Otar est parti... (DVDrip - 2003)
98 min | XviD 640x352 | 922 kb/s | 64 kb/s cbr mp3 | 29.97 fps | B-VOP | 700 MB + 3% recovery record
Georgian, Russian, French | Subtitles: Spanish, English and French .srt | Genre: Art-house/Drama | MU/RS

Three women -- a grandmother, a middle-aged daughter, and a university-student granddaughter, live together, male-less, in Tblisi amid post-Soviet economic collapse. An occasional hard-currency bill shows up in letters from a beloved son/brother/uncle, who has qualified as a physician but is working as a clandestine laborer in Paris. The women snap at each other, manipulate one another, and confront life as best they can, each from her own perspective and unique experience. There is a large apartment filled with treasured bibelots and French books, and the suggestion of a more respectable, Chekovian Francophile pre-revolutionary past.
Posted By : muzak | Date : 24 Aug 2007 09:52:00 | Comments : 9

Sergei Parajanov - The Hoary Legends Of The Caucasus (aka Ashik Kerib aka Ashugi Qaribi) [1988]
Video: XviD, 25 frm/s, 576 x 432, 4:3 | Audio: MPEG-1 Layer 3, 48000 Hz, Mono | 1479 MB (2 CD) | 1:13.44 | COLOR
Language: Georgian? | External subtitles:Russian, English, Francais, Espanol, Italiano, Nederlands, Japanese, Svenska, Deutsch, Portugues, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese

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Posted By : FNB47 | Date : 16 Aug 2007 09:47:00 | Comments : 9

Otar Iosseliani-Brigands, chapitre VII (1996)
1463.3 MB | 1:56:53 | French/Georgian with Eng. s/t | XviD, 1475 Kb/s | 640x386

This crazy, satirical epic humorously portrays several eras in European history. Though the costumes and regimes change, the film suggests, the human motives of lust and greed remain the same. Jumping back and forth in time, the film condemns its characters to an eternity of irony. In one section, a medieval king named Vano, who has a penchant for exotic torture techniques, executes his wife for being unfaithful. Seamlessly the film flashes forward to the early 1930s, with another Vano, played by the same actor, portraying a low-down thief who suddenly seizes power. Intercut with all of this is the story of a contemporary Vano, a hapless drunk who wanders across the underworlds of Europe. This extraordinary film expresses rage against the dark side of human nature that keeps despots in power, despite the upheavals of history, but it does so with a delightfully comic edge.
Posted By : FNB47 | Date : 18 Jul 2007 09:40:00 | Comments : 12

Otar Iosseliani-Iko shashvi mgalobeli ('Once Upon a Time There Was a Singing Blackbird') (1970)
729 MB | 1:17:44 | Georgian with English+French s/t | XviD, 1140 Kb/s | 512x384

Iosseliani’s contemporary fables of modern life and traditional values have been compared to the classic comedies of French master Jacques Tati. Shrewdly whimsical and filmed with a poetic casualness, Iosseliani’s universe is one of joyous pessimism. (-DVD back cover)
Posted By : FNB47 | Date : 05 Jul 2007 10:09:00 | Comments : 3

Otar Iosseliani-Giorgobistve ('Falling Leaves') (1966)
727.1 MB | 1:31:07 | Georgian with Eng.+FR. s/t | XviD, 960 Kb/s | 512x384

Iosseliani’s contemporary fables of modern life and traditional values have been compared to the classic comedies of French master Jacques Tati. Shrewdly whimsical and filmed with a poetic casualness, Iosseliani’s universe is one of joyous pessimism. (-DVD back cover)
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