27 minutes. One prison break. Zero reason to trust anyone.
A young man escapes from prison three months before his release, but after communicating with his father and friends decides to declare himself to the police...
Direction
Tsintsadze squeezes entire life philosophies into single static shots
Acting
Chkheidze's face says everything dialogue refuses to
Production
Tbilisi locations that reek of authentic post-collapse exhaustion
Director
Dito Tsintsadze
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in 1990 Tbilisi as the USSR crumbled; the prison system mirrors the collapsing state bureaucracy. FREE
Tsintsadze's thesis film—he'd later win Berlin's Golden Bear for 'In Bloom.' The deadpan minimalism was already fully formed. FREE
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