Brigands, chapitre VII [videorecording] / Pierre Grise Productions (France), La sept cinéma (France), Soyuzkinoservice (Russia), BIM Distribuzione (Italie), Carac Film AG (Suisse) ; produit par Martin Marignac ; scénario, Otar Iosseliani ; [directed by Otar Iosseliani].

Chicago, Ill. : Facets Video, [2003], c1996.

1 videocassette (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.

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.

Kachagebi

Images / Video & Film

Russian; Georgian; French

August 06, 2007

Director of photography, William Lubtchansky ; editors, Otar Iosseliani, Marie-Agnès Blum, Santiago Thévenet ; music, Nicolas Zourabichvili ; costume designers, Ludmila Gaintseva, Cori D'Ambrogio ; production designers, Emmanuel de Chauvigny, Jean-Michel Simonet, Lena Joukova.

Amiran Amiranachvili, Dato Gogibedachvili, Guio Tzintsadze, Nino Ordjonikidze, Alexi Djakeli, Niko Kartsivadze, Keti Kapanadze.

VHS.

MPAA rating: Not rated.

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