Soviet Georgian Cinema

Central Asian Cinema

The cinema of Georgia has been noted for its cinematography in Europe. Italian film director Federico Fellini was an admirer of the Georgian film: "Georgian film is a completely unique phenomenon, vivid, philosophically inspiring, very wise, childlike. There is everything that can make me cry and I ought to say that it is not an easy thing."

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Key Directors

Sergei Parajanov

No. 28 · USSR [now Republic of Georgia] · Tiflis

The supreme colorist of cinema, a poet who painted with light, shadow, and human bodies arranged like icons. His films are visual symphonies — ornate, ecstatic, defiant — made in defiance of Soviet ideology and his own imprisonment.

Dziga Vertov

Russian Empire

Sergei Eisenstein

Russian Empire

January 23,1898, Riga, Latvia d. February 11, 1948, Moscow, USSR

Defining Films

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors 1965 · Sergei Parajanov

Battleship Potemkin 1925 · Sergei Eisenstein

Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot 1958 · Sergei Eisenstein

Ivan the Terrible, Part I 1944 · Sergei Eisenstein

Cinema of the avant-garde 1923 - 1930 2010 · Sergei Eisenstein

Sergei Eisenstein: Mexican Fantasy 1998 · Sergei Eisenstein

¡Qué Viva México! 1979 · Sergei Eisenstein

Related Movements in Central Asian Cinema