Semyon DOLIDZE
Семён ДОЛИДЗЕ
Semion DOLIDZE
USSR (Georgia), 1934, 80mn 
Black and white, silent, fiction
Poslednie krestonostsy
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Последние крестоносцы

 

 Last Crusaders

 Les Derniers croisés

Other titles : Ukanaskneli djvarosnebi (original title)
 
Directed by : Semyon DOLIDZE (Семён ДОЛИДЗЕ)
Writing credits : Semyon DOLIDZE (Семён ДОЛИДЗЕ)
 
Cast
Sergo ZAKARIADZE (Серго ЗАКАРИАДЗЕ) ...Torgvay
Vaso ARABIDZE (Васо АРАБИДЗЕ) ...Mchedela
Georgi GABELASHVILI (Георгий ГАБЕЛАШВИЛИ)
Nato VACHNADZE (Нато ВАЧНАДЗЕ)
 
Cinematography : Aleksandr DIGMELOV (Александр ДИГМЕЛОВ)
Production design : Serapion VATSADZE (Серапион ВАЦАДЗЕ)
Companies : Goskinprom Gruzii
 

Plot synopsis
The Kevsours live peacefully in the Georgian mountains. But a man is killed. The old chief wrongly accuses the Chechens and refuses the centrifuge that their emissaries brought as a sign of peace. Genia, a Red Army soldier, is back. Against general advice, he goes to visit the Chechens and finds two old comrades with whom he sings the Internationale. He returns, mortally wounded, and only has time to designate his murderer: “Class”. His brother Torgvai goes to avenge him. He quickly understands his mistake because the Chechens also bury one of their own, killed by a class enemy. He returns to the village but his community refuses to believe him and his fiancée degrades him. Thanks to the cream separator, Torgvai makes the best butter in the district. The Kevsours, upset, convince him to take back his place in the tribe and the first “Génia” cooperative is created. Livestock is also pooled. One night, the herds are dispersed and two herdsmen again implicate the Chechens. Torgvai returns to his neighbors. They suffered the same damage. The young man explains to his people who the class enemies are and reconciles with his beloved.
 

commentaries
Les origines du cinéma soviétique : un regard neuf, Myriam TSIKOUNAS, Cerf, 1992
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Georgian films on kinoglaz.fr, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023