Brigands, chapitre VII

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Label

Brigands, chapitre VII

Statement of responsibility

Pierre Grise Productions (France), La sept cinéma (France), Soyuzkinoservice (Russia), BIM Distribuzione (Italie), Carac Film AG (Suisse) ; produit par Martin Marignac ; scénario, Otar Iosseliani ; [directed by Otar Iosseliani]

Contributor

• BIM Distribuzione
• Carac Film AG
• Facets Video (Firm)
• Pierre Grise Productions
• Sept Cinéma (Firm)
• Soyuzkinoservice
• Amiranashvili, Amiran
• Blum, Marie-Agnès
• Chauvigny, Emmanuel de
• D'Ambrogio, Cori
• Djakeli, Alexi
• Gaintseva, Ludmila
• Gogibedachvili, Dato
• Iosseliani, Otar
• Joukova, Lena
• Kampanadze, Keti
• Kartsivadze, Niko
• Lubtchansky, William
• Marignac, Martine
• Ordjonikidze, Nino
• Simonet, Jean-Michel
• Thévenet, Santiago
• Tzintsadze, Guio
• Zourabichvili, Nicolas

Subject

• Avarice -- Drama
• Drama
• Feature films
• Feature films -- France
• Feature films -- Russia (Federation)
• Foreign language films -- French
• Foreign language films -- Georgian
• Lust -- Drama

Genre

• Drama
• Feature films
• Foreign language films

Language

• rus
• geo
• fre
• eng
• rus

Summary

This crazy, satirical epic humorously portrays several eras in European history. Though the costumes and regimes change, the film suggests, the human motives of lust and greed remain the same. Jumping back and forth in time, the film condemns its characters to an eternity of irony. In one section, a medieval king named Vano, who has a penchant for exotic torture techniques, executes his wife for being unfaithful. Seamlessly the film flashes forward to the early 1930s, with another Vano, played by the same actor, portraying a low-down thief who suddenly seizes power. Intercut with all of this is the story of a contemporary Vano, a hapless drunk who wanders across the underworlds of Europe

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, William Lubtchansky ; editors, Otar Iosseliani, Marie-Agnès Blum, Santiago Thévenet ; music, Nicolas Zourabichvili ; costume designers, Ludmila Gaintseva, Cori D'Ambrogio ; production designers, Emmanuel de Chauvigny, Jean-Michel Simonet, Lena Joukova

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

MPAA rating: Not rated

Language note

In Russian, Georgian and French, with English subtitles

LC call number

PN1997

LC item number

.B75 2004

PerformerNote

Amiran Amiranachvili, Dato Gogibedachvili, Guio Tzintsadze, Nino Ordjonikidze, Alexi Djakeli, Niko Kartsivadze, Keti Kapanadze

Runtime

117

Target audience

general

Technique

live action