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Uniform Title Depuis qu'Otar est parti (Motion picture)
Title Depuis qu'Otar est parti-- = Since Otar left-- / Zeitgeist Films ; Les Films du Poisson présente ; en coproduction avec Arte France Cinéma, Entre Chien et Loup, Studio 99 et la participation de Canal+ ; un film de Julie Bertuccelli ; ecrit par [written by] Julie Bertuccelli and Bernard Renucci ; adaptation, Roger Bohbot ; produit par Yaël Fogiel.

Publication Info. [Paris ] : Les Films du Poisson ; New York, NY : Distributed in the US by Zeitgeist Films, [2003]
©2004

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Location Call No. Status
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Main Level  DVD FOREIGN FILM SINCE    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  FOREIGN AD DVD SINCE    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  FOREIGN FILM DVD SINC    Check Shelf
Description 1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
System Details DVD; Region 1, NTSC; widescreen presentation, 1.85:1 aspect ratio.
Cast Esther Gorintin (Eka), Nino Khomassouridze (Marina), Dinara Droukarova (Ada), Temour Kalandadze (Tenguiz), Roussoudan Bolkvadze (Roussiko), Sacha Sarichvili (Alexi), Douta Skhirtladze (Niko), Abdallah Moundy (Le berbère).
Credits Image [cinematography], Christophe Pollock ; montage [editor], Emmanuelle Castro ; chef décorateur [production design], Emmanuel de Chauvigny ; conception costumes, Nathalie Raoul.
Note Originally produced as a French motion picture in 2003.
Audience MPAA Rating: Not rated.
Summary Three generations of women--ninety something grandmother Eka, her middle-aged daughter Marina, and twentyish, multilingual, well-educated, lively granddaughter Ada--share a rundown flat in T'bilisi, the capital city of the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. Eka is always certain of herself. Marina is never satisfied. Ada is fed up and trapped. Theirs is an accidental matriarchy, as Eka's beloved only son, the titular Otar, is in France. A trained doctor, he sends money home from his menial jobs as an undocumented laborer. Eka lives for his occasional letters and telephone calls, so when he is killed in an accident, Marina and Ada weave an intricate web of deception to spare the old woman from heartbreak. But what will happen when Eka decides to visit Otar in Paris?
Contents Otar's letter -- News from Paris -- First lie -- Ada -- Waiting -- Niko returns -- Eka's secret -- City of lights -- Alone with the truth -- End credits.
Awards Winner, 2003 Cannes Film Festival: Critics Week Grand Prize, and Grand Golden Rail-Julie Bertucelli; 2004 César Award: Meilleure première oeuvre de fiction (Best first work)-Julie Bertucelli.
Note Special features: Deleted scenes (27 min.); Behind the scenes (53 min.); U.S. trailer (2 min.).
Language In French, Georgian, and Russian with English subtitles.
Note GMD: videorecording.
Local Note WNPLFFDVD
Subject Secrecy -- Drama.
Deception -- Drama.
Women -- Drama.
Women -- Georgia (Republic) -- Drama.
City and town life -- Georgia (Republic) -- Tʻbilisi -- Drama.
Mothers and sons -- Drama.
Georgians (South Caucasians) -- France -- Paris -- Drama.
Tʻbilisi (Georgia)
Indexed Term Femmes Géorgie (République) Drame
Genre/Form Feature films.
Fiction films.
Foreign films.
Motion pictures, French.
Motion pictures, Georgian.
Motion pictures, Russian.
Added Author Bertuccelli, Julie, 1968- Screenwriter. Director.
Renucci, Bernard. Screenwriter.
Bohbot, Roger. Screenwriter.
Fogiel, Yael. Producer.
Gorintin, Esther. Actor.
Khomassouridze, Nino. Actor.
Drukarova, Dinara. Actor.
Kalandadze, Temur. Actor.
Bolkvadze, Roussoudan. Actor.
Sarichvili, Sacha. Actor.
Skhirtladze, Douta. Actor.
Moundy, Abdallah. Actor.
Films du poisson (Firm)
Arte France cinéma (Firm)
Entre Chien et Loup (Firm)
Studio 99 (Firm)
Studio Canal+.
Zeitgeist Films.
Added Title Since Otar left--
Standard No. 795975106337
Music No. Z1063 ZEIGEIST FILMS
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