Chance and chance are a great test and gift for the journalist.
The suggestion to make a film about an extraordinary woman who can talk about life with empathy, sensitivity and originality sent me to my beloved Georgia.
She is the screenwriter of Abuladze's "Repentance" , and will screen her latest film "Liza, go on" at The Palace Festival on July 3. From July, the film is hitting the country's better cinemas!"I didn't set out to make movies. It's just that the film institute in Tbilisi was opened the very year I graduated from school. Before that, there was only a film department at VGIK in Moscow. Tengiz Abouladze was to be the main lecturer in the faculty, and the second group was to be taken over by Lana Gogoberidze. And my parents suggested that I try to get in there because the professors were interesting people. I just believed them, it was all completely thoughtless. After a year I wanted to leave because I wasn't interested. And my teacher Tengiz Abuladze convinced me to stay another year. I started working on the film "The Wishing Tree" as Abuladze's assistant. I saw how to make a big and good film, from directing and writing to sound mixing. And when you work on a big film, that's when your mind grows. Then it was time for me to work on Repentance. I asked Tengiz - I was his sister-in-law by then - to let me read the synopsis, which was small, five pages. He had previously brought a lot of dissident literature. We read the whole of Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, we read Eugenia Ginzburg. They made a strong impression on me. The book by Nadezhda Mandelstam, the wife of the poet Ossip Mandelstam, who also ended up in a camp, left deep marks in me. I wrote an analysis of the synopsis, and Tengiz sent me to work on the script. That there is a third generation in the film was my contribution. We were already living in another era. The younger generation was a victim of the old sins of their parents. Past sins always have an impact on the future and cripple it."
Nana in the Strangers movie coming soon!
The suggestion to make a film about an extraordinary woman who can talk about life with empathy, sensitivity and originality sent me to my beloved Georgia.
She is the screenwriter of Abuladze's "Repentance" , and will screen her latest film "Liza, go on" at The Palace Festival on July 3. From July, the film is hitting the country's better cinemas!"I didn't set out to make movies. It's just that the film institute in Tbilisi was opened the very year I graduated from school. Before that, there was only a film department at VGIK in Moscow. Tengiz Abouladze was to be the main lecturer in the faculty, and the second group was to be taken over by Lana Gogoberidze. And my parents suggested that I try to get in there because the professors were interesting people. I just believed them, it was all completely thoughtless. After a year I wanted to leave because I wasn't interested. And my teacher Tengiz Abuladze convinced me to stay another year. I started working on the film "The Wishing Tree" as Abuladze's assistant. I saw how to make a big and good film, from directing and writing to sound mixing. And when you work on a big film, that's when your mind grows. Then it was time for me to work on Repentance. I asked Tengiz - I was his sister-in-law by then - to let me read the synopsis, which was small, five pages. He had previously brought a lot of dissident literature. We read the whole of Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, we read Eugenia Ginzburg. They made a strong impression on me. The book by Nadezhda Mandelstam, the wife of the poet Ossip Mandelstam, who also ended up in a camp, left deep marks in me. I wrote an analysis of the synopsis, and Tengiz sent me to work on the script. That there is a third generation in the film was my contribution. We were already living in another era. The younger generation was a victim of the old sins of their parents. Past sins always have an impact on the future and cripple it."Nana in the Strangers movie coming soon!
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