Mikhail BAKRADZE
Михаил БАКРАДЗЕ
Mikhaïl BAKRADZE
Leo BAKRADZE
Лео БАКРАДЗЕ
Leo BAKRADZE
USSR (Georgia), 1989, 62mn 
Black and white, documentary
Mission
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Миссия

 

 Mission

 Missiya

 
Directed by : Mikhail BAKRADZE (Михаил БАКРАДЗЕ), Leo BAKRADZE (Лео БАКРАДЗЕ)
Writing credits : Mikhail BAKRADZE (Михаил БАКРАДЗЕ), Leonid GUREVICH (Леонид ГУРЕВИЧ), Vladimir KUPERMAN (Владимир КУПЕРМАН)
Production : Gruzyanauchfilm
 
Site : www.colonia.spb.ru/mission_f/mission_f08.htm

Plot synopsis
A story of salvation of more than 800 Petrograd children who made a round-the-world trip from 1918 to 1921 is one of the most unique and also little-known facts of the 20th century. Children left starving Petrograd for Ural «nutritional» colony but found themselves in the thick of the Civil War battles, cut off from their parents by the front lines. Staff of Red Cross managed to get children out by railway to Vladivostok. From there they visited the world (Japon, USA, France, Finlande) during one year before coming back home.
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Georgian films on kinoglaz.fr, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- International Film Festival : Pacific Meridians, Vladivostok (Russia), 2010