Kote MARJANISHVILI
Котэ МАРДЖАНИШВИЛИ
Kote MARDJANICHVILI
USSR (Georgia), 1927, 70mn 
fiction
Law and duty
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Закон и долг

 

 Droits et devoirs

 Zakon i dolg

 
Directed by : Kote MARJANISHVILI (Котэ МАРДЖАНИШВИЛИ)
Writing credits : Kote MARJANISHVILI (Котэ МАРДЖАНИШВИЛИ)
 
Cast
Nato VACHNADZE (Нато ВАЧНАДЗЕ) ...the English woman
Aleksandr IMEDASHVILI (Александр ИМЕДАШВИЛИ) ...the doctor
Siko PALAVANDISHVILI (Сико ПАЛАВАНДИШВИЛИ)
G. TARKHAN-MOUVARY (Г. ТАХАН- МОУВАРИЙ)
Tsetsilia TSUTSUNAVA (Цецилия ЦУЦУНАВА)
 
Cinematography : Sergey ZABOZLAEV (Сергей ЗАБОЗЛАЕВ)
Production design : Valerian SIDAMON-ERISTOV (Валериан СИДАМОН-ЭРИСТОВ)
Production : Gruziya-Film
 

Plot synopsis
A bored doctor in an Indian village spends evenings at home drinking whiskey and smoking opium after seeing patients. One day, an Englishwoman comes to him and asks him to have an abortion on her. The doctor, knowing that it is illegal, refuses her this service. But after the woman leaves, he begins to be tormented by a sense of shame from an unfulfilled medical duty, and he rushes in search of her.
 

Commentaries and bibliography
 
Screening of Stefan Zweig's famous novel "Amok" directed by theater reformer Konstantin Mardzhanov and which marks a return to the aesthetics of the Silver Age of Soviet cinema of the 1920s.

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Georgian films on kinoglaz.fr, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- Moscow International Festival of Archival Films (Formerly "Belye Stolby"), Moscow (Russia), 2022

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