Soviet Georgia, 1983. Preparations for Nika and Ana's wedding are in full swing and it's a big day for both of their elite families. For the newlyweds and their friends, however, the celebrations are in fact part of a cover-up, as they plot an audacious escape from the Soviet Union.
Direction
Rezo Gigineishvili wrings dread from every polite smile.
Production
1983 Tbilisi recreated with suffocating authenticity.
Acting
Irakli Kvirikadze's eyes carry the whole escape.
Director
Rezo Gigineishvili
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film was controversial in Georgia for humanizing hijackers from a still-painful national trauma; director Rezo Gigineishvili faced death threats.
Nadezhda Mikhalkova, who plays Maya, is daughter of Oscar-winning director Nikita Mikhalkov — casting a Russian filmmaker's child in a Soviet-defector story was deliberate irony.
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