Eldar SHENGELAIA
Эльдар ШЕНГЕЛАЯ
Eldar CHENGUELAIA
USSR (Georgia), 1968, 95mn 
Black and white, fiction
An Unusual Exhibition
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Необыкновенная выставка

 

 L'Exposition extraordinaire

 Neobyknovyennaya vystavka

Other titles : Aratchveoulebrivi gamopena
 
Directed by : Eldar SHENGELAIA (Эльдар ШЕНГЕЛАЯ)
Writing credits : Rezo GABRIADZE (Резо ГАБРИАДЗЕ)
 
Cast
David ABASHIDZE (Давид АБАШИДЗЕ) ...Savleg
Vasili CHKHAIDZE (Василий ЧХАИДЗЕ) ...Pipina
Viktor DEIZADZE (Виктор ДЕЙСАДЗЕ) ...Benoventur
Salome KANCHELI (Саломе КАНЧЕЛИ) ...La veuve
Aleksandr KELBIAKANY (Александр КЕЛБИАКАНИ) ...Pestvenidze
Guram LORDKIPANIDZE (Гурам ЛОРДКИПАНИДЗЕ) ...Agouli
Valentina TELICHKINA (Валентина ТЕЛИЧКИНА) ...Glafira
Julietta VASHAKMADZE (Джульетта ВАШАКМАДЗЕ) ...Tina
 
Cinematography : Georgi GERSAMIA (Георгий ГЕРСАМИЯ)
Production design : Dmitry ERISTAVI (Дмитрий ЭРИСТАВИ)
Music : Giya KANCHELY (Гия КАНЧЕЛИ)
Sound : Otar GEGECHKORY (Отар ГЕГЕЧКОРИ)
Production : Grouzia-Film
 

Plot synopsis
After graduating from the School of Fine Arts, the young sculptor Agouli Eristavi receives a large Parian marble as a gift from his teacher. He hopes to make an extraordinary work of art out of it one day. But then comes the Second World War, from which he returns very upset. He marries a young Russian woman, Glafira, and to support his family, he sculpts tombstones for private clients. The large white marble remains intact. Little by little, his works accumulate... in the city cemetery where they end up forming an "extraordinary exhibition". Agouli gives the large marble to his student Zauri in the hope that he will accomplish what he himself could not achieve.
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Georgian films on kinoglaz.fr, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- International Film Festival of the Commonwealth Countries "Moscow Premiere", Moscow (Russia), 2021
- Fribourg International Film Festival, Fribourg (Switzerland), 2011
- Marseille Russian Film Festival in Toursky, Marseille (France), 2007
- Retrospectives : brothers Shengelaya - Mikhail Kobakhidze, Paris (France), 2005