81 minutes of Soviet Georgia existential dread that'll ruin your week (in a good way)
A theater director with a normal middle-class life in Tbilisi becomes increasingly disturbed after witnessing a murder, obsessing about whether he could have done anything to prevent it.
Direction
Goghoberidze's claustrophobic framing traps you in his psyche
Acting
Palavandishvili's unraveling is physically painful to watch
Director
Lana Goghoberidze
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
One of the first Georgian films directed by a woman, made under Soviet censorship yet deeply subversive in its critique of passive masculinity.
The theater setting isn't accidental—Goghoberidze frames his life as performance, questioning which 'self' is authentic by the final scene.
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