Released Date:
1997-04-23
Languages:
French, Georgian, Russian
Countries:
France, Georgia, Ukraine, Belgium, Russia
Runtime:
100 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (469 Reviews)
Director:
Nana DzhordzhadzeIrakli Kvirikadze (scenario)
Andrè Graill (adaptation)
The story of Pascal Ichak, a larger-than-life French traveller, bon vivant, and chef, who falls in love with Georgia and a Georgian princess in the early 1920s. All is well until the arrival of the Red Army of the Caucasus, as the Soviet revolution that has swept Russian comes to Georgia. Told as a flashback from the present, as a French-Georgian man whose mother was Pascal's lover translates his memoirs for Pascal's niece.
Released Date:
1998-06-26
Languages:
French, Portuguese
Countries:
Portugal, France
Runtime:
91 min
IMDB Ratings:
(531 Reviews)
Director:
Manoel de OliveiraManoel de Oliveira (scenario and dialogue)
Jacques Parsi (translation: French)
Manoel is aging film director who travels with the film crew through Portugal in search of the origins of Afonso, a famous French actor whose father emigrated from Portugal to France and in process remembers his own youth.
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