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A film which was completely ignored at the Iffi ’10 in Goa but which would have repaid patience several fold was part of a small Georgian package. The film was shown in a bad print with a loud Russian commentary which had then been subtitled in English. Watching the film was a strenuous exercise but after a while it became evident that The Sun of the Sleepless (1992) is nothing short of a masterpiece, the kind of unknown film that makes one wish for film history to be rewritten. The film is, broadly speaking, ‘humanist’ but it is of another kind of humanism than the facile kind familiar in cinema today, although this needs some elaboration.
At the center of The Sun of the Sleepless (Udzinarta mze) is a doctor named Gela Bendeliani (Elgudzha Burduli) in a small town in Soviet Georgia, who has an unlimited capacity for generosity and forgiveness. When...
At the center of The Sun of the Sleepless (Udzinarta mze) is a doctor named Gela Bendeliani (Elgudzha Burduli) in a small town in Soviet Georgia, who has an unlimited capacity for generosity and forgiveness. When...
- 1/8/2011
- by MK Raghvendra
- DearCinema.com
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