A Georgian ex-con discovers he can control the weather and NOBODY is ready.
Datho (Merab Ninidze) has been innocent in prison for many years. When he comes home nobody wants him. His angelic wife Elene (Anna Antonowicz) has fun with a fire-eater. The two children imagined the father as a hero, not as a sorrowful knight. But everything changes when Datho can freeze his enemies in the bathtub or he calls for rain so that they remain stuck in the mud.
Acting
Merab Ninidze's sorrowful, magnetic presence anchors the absurdity.
Direction
Nana Jorjadze blends folklore grit with magical flourishes.
Cinematography
Georgia's landscapes become characters — muddy, vast, unforgiving.
Director
Nana Jorjadze
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Nana Jorjadze won the Camera d'Or at Cannes in 1987; this was her long-awaited return to features.
The film draws on Georgian folklore where weather-workers (mekvle) were both revered and feared as outsiders.
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