DIRECTOR: Rusudan Glurjidze
STARRING: Goran Bogdan, Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Sergey Dreyden, Salome Demuria
RUNNING TIME: 2 hrs 13 minutes
LANGUAGE: Russian, Georgian
A young Georgian man named Lado is involved in smuggling antique furniture from Georgia to Russia. Medea, Lado's girlfriend, buys herself an apartment in St. Petersburg's historic centre. At the time of the unlawful deportation of thousands of Georgians from Russia, Lado is caught and deported.
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The Antique is the second feature film from director Rusudan Glurjidze. The selection comes just two weeks after the feature was caught up in an unexpected legal battle at the Venice Film Festival when an emergency decree issued on behalf of Russian and Croatian producers led to the temporary suspension of its screening in the parallel Giornate degli Autori section. These claims were contested by the film’s Georgian producers as well as its sales agent MPM International, amid suggestions that the move to prevent the film screening was politically motivated. A lawyer acting for the Giornate degli Autori filed a counterclaim and was able to overturn the decree at the eleventh hour, allowing the film to have its world premiere in the section on September 6.
The choice of The Antique as Georgia’s Oscar candidate was taken Thursday, September 12, under a secret ballot of a special commission organized by the Georgian National Film Center. The Antique was one of two frontrunners alongside Dea Kulumbegashvili’s drama April, about a rural obstetrician-gynecologist who performs illegal abortions for women. The other submitted films were Beka Sikharulidze’s From Life to Life, Davit Kafiashvili's The Man Who Stood at the Booth and Khatuna Vashadze's Devil Paradise.
The film is produced by Zurab Magalashvili at Tbilisi-based Cinetech along with the Czech Republic’s Cinetrain SA, Icelandic company Whitepoint Digital, and Germany’s Basis Berlin Filmproduction.
The Antique is a drama and it was filmed in Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
To check out all previous submissions for Georgia, click HERE.
STARRING: Goran Bogdan, Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Sergey Dreyden, Salome Demuria
RUNNING TIME: 2 hrs 13 minutes
LANGUAGE: Russian, Georgian
A young Georgian man named Lado is involved in smuggling antique furniture from Georgia to Russia. Medea, Lado's girlfriend, buys herself an apartment in St. Petersburg's historic centre. At the time of the unlawful deportation of thousands of Georgians from Russia, Lado is caught and deported.
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The Antique is the second feature film from director Rusudan Glurjidze. The selection comes just two weeks after the feature was caught up in an unexpected legal battle at the Venice Film Festival when an emergency decree issued on behalf of Russian and Croatian producers led to the temporary suspension of its screening in the parallel Giornate degli Autori section. These claims were contested by the film’s Georgian producers as well as its sales agent MPM International, amid suggestions that the move to prevent the film screening was politically motivated. A lawyer acting for the Giornate degli Autori filed a counterclaim and was able to overturn the decree at the eleventh hour, allowing the film to have its world premiere in the section on September 6.
The choice of The Antique as Georgia’s Oscar candidate was taken Thursday, September 12, under a secret ballot of a special commission organized by the Georgian National Film Center. The Antique was one of two frontrunners alongside Dea Kulumbegashvili’s drama April, about a rural obstetrician-gynecologist who performs illegal abortions for women. The other submitted films were Beka Sikharulidze’s From Life to Life, Davit Kafiashvili's The Man Who Stood at the Booth and Khatuna Vashadze's Devil Paradise.
The film is produced by Zurab Magalashvili at Tbilisi-based Cinetech along with the Czech Republic’s Cinetrain SA, Icelandic company Whitepoint Digital, and Germany’s Basis Berlin Filmproduction.
The Antique is a drama and it was filmed in Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
To check out all previous submissions for Georgia, click HERE.
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