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Otar Ioseliani

Otar Ioseliani

Directing

Biography

Otar Ioseliani (February 2, 1934 - December 17, 2023) was a Georgian filmmaker.

Known For

Falling Leaves
5.4

A young worker takes a job at a local state run winery only to discover and become disillusioned by the corruption of the Soviet State.

Falling Leaves

1966
There Once Was a Singing Blackbird
6.2

Gia is a carefree young percussionist who works at a theater in Tbilisi, capital of Georgia. He lives in a small apartment with his mother. Gia spends his days flitting from friend to friend, lover to lover, avoiding any responsibility, and never staying still for five minutes. However, he always manages to arrive at the theater just in time to play the drums at the end of the ballet.

There Once Was a Singing Blackbird

1970
Sacrifices of Andrei Tarkovsky
N/A

Dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Andrei Tarkovsky. The film uses unique materials related to the years Tarkovsky spent in Italy, personal accounts of friends and professionals, the shooting locations of his films, to what degree his works reflects his personal life. The film brings us closer to the man to whom contemporary filmmaking owes so much.

Sacrifices of Andrei Tarkovsky

2012
The Exile and Death of Andrei Tarkovsky
8.0

A documentary about the life of Andrei Tarkovsky in exile in Western Europe including Italy, Sweden, Germany and France until his sad demise to a fatal cancer.

The Exile and Death of Andrei Tarkovsky

1988
Son of Gascogne
5.1

You're a provincial kid in Paris and suddenly you're the center of attention: Movie stars, famous directors and sexy women are doting on you because they all think you're the son of their long-dead legendary friend. You never knew your dad, but the facts of this famous guy's life suggest that he might have fathered you. Your mom tells you nothing. All the fuss makes you uncomfortable at first but soon you find it's rather fun to be the son of the famous Gascogne. And in the midst of it all you fall in love. It is, after all, springtime in Paris.

Son of Gascogne

1995
VGIK: Teachers and Students Talk About the Profession
N/A

The story of VGIK teachers and students about the acting profession.

VGIK: Teachers and Students Talk About the Profession

1979
Farewell, Home Sweet Home
5.2

Nicholas is the eldest son of a wealthy suburban family, whose businesswoman mother makes deals from a helicopter and has an affair with her business partner. His cheerful, alcoholic father, on the other hand, is reduced to a prisoner in his room with his devoted dog and electric train set. Unbeknownst to his parents, Nicholas works as a window cleaner and dish washer in a Parisian cafe. He is also in love with the daughter of another cafe's owner, who, however, has an abusive boyfriend. One night, Nicholas sneaks a few drunken drifters into his family wine cellar and his father unexpectedly takes a liking to the stranger.

Farewell, Home Sweet Home

1999
Monday Morning
6.0

Vincent lives in a village, along the Rhône. Every morning he goes to the factory to work, and in the evening he takes care of his family. One day, he decides to go on a trip with the money given by his father.

Monday Morning

2002
Gardens in Autumn
6.0

When he loses his position as a powerful government minister, Vincent is dropped by his pretty mistress and must begin life anew, without the privileges of power. As he gradually becomes acquainted with milieus which he d either forgotten or never known and a host of sometimes eccentric, often remarkable everyday people, Vincent really begins to start living again.

Gardens in Autumn

2006
Favourites of the Moon
5.0

A porcelain table service and a painting from the 19th century pass from hand to hand and deteriorate over time, sealing the fate of different characters who cross paths in Paris.

Favourites of the Moon

1985
A Little Monastery in Tuscany
5.0

It is a brief documentary which records the life of five Augustinian monks in the little monastery of Castelnuovo dell'Abate, a Tuscan village, as well as the everyday life of people in the small town, from farmers to meat-hackers, from wine-makers to wild boar hunters.

A Little Monastery in Tuscany

1988
Eletrodoméstica
6.4

A middle-class family living in a house filled with superfluous electronic appliances see the arrival of a new item, a 29" TV-set.

Eletrodoméstica

2005
Chasing Butterflies
5.8

Two old ladies live in a French chateau. When one of them dies, her sister, who lives in Moscow, inherits the property, which soon ends up in the hands of Japanese businessmen.

Chasing Butterflies

1992
Winter Song
6.4

Two old friends have urban adventures connected to the skull of an executed French aristocrat.

Winter Song

2015
Chantrapas
4.3

A filmmaker finds creative freedom more elusive than he imagined in this ironic comedy-drama. Tired of the state-appointed producers and censorship in his homeland, Soviet Georgia, Niko decides to move to France, only to find that he has merely traded one type of interference for another.

Chantrapas

2011
Story of Young Girl
6.0

An Young, inexperiences girl had decided to live in the countryside, but she can't find her place among gloomy, unfriendly locals, Can't manage to do her job well. and decides to return to the city. However, her family thinks that her return would be inappropriate for their traditions.

Story of Young Girl

1960
Brigands, Chapter VII
6.1

A witty, despairing French-Russian-Italian-Swiss art movie set in 16th-century Georgia, Stalinist Georgia, contemporary Georgia, and contemporary Paris, featuring the same set of actors in all four settings.

Brigands, Chapter VII

1996
April
5.5

A critique of materialism, the film is about a young couple who live in a rundown empty apartment. Their love is so strong that it makes the water flow and the electricity work, but when they start purchasing furniture and knickknacks, they fight and grow apart.

April

1963
Euskadi, Summer 1982
4.5

Part of a series in which foreign filmmakers portray a region or town in France. Otar Iosselani looks at the Basque region and its inhabitants.

Euskadi, Summer 1982

1983
Pastorale
5.4

In the mountain village comes a group of young musicians in Tbilisi. Here they are going to relax and rehearse. Sad story about the final rupture occurred, the peasants do not sing beautiful old songs, the musicians play music incomprehensible to them ... Far from the idyllic image of rural life.

Pastorale

1975