Skhvisi sakhli
House of Others
Krieg bedeutet Auseinandersetzung – ein Leben lang. Es ist Anfang der 1990er-Jahre. Und es herrscht Bürgerkrieg zwischen Georgien und der nunmehr autonomen Region Abchasien. Zwei Familien überleben den kurzen, aber umso verheerenderen Konflikt. Auf der Gewinnerseite stehend, werden ihnen fluchtartig verlassene Häuser zugesprochen. Doch trotz des Endes der Auseinandersetzungen wirken sie unfähig, ein neues Leben aufzubauen. Zu fremd sind die Häuser, die den Befeindeten noch kurz zuvor Heim waren. Der Krieg also geht, die Erinnerungen bleiben. Nach der persönlichen Geschichte der Regisseurin.
Two families have physically survived a brief but devastating civil war. Being on the winning side, they are granted the hastily vacated houses of the defeated but seem incapable of building a new life in peace: war continues in everyday life because the battles still rage within them. The director’s own harrowing experiences, faithfully conveyed onscreen twenty years later, are rendered into a tale of rootlessness, where the loss of identity, of childhood and of the very meaning of life cannot negate the protagonists’ awareness that life itself must still go on. This war picture devoid of battle scenes heightens the ineffability of the evil that accompanies armed conflict. (Kamila Dolotina, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)
Director's Biography
RUSUDAN GLURJIDZE, born in 1972 in Tbilisi, studied Romance philology and literature as well as screenwriting and directing at the Shota Rustaveli Theatre and Georgia State Film University. She worked as assistant director on Giorgi Shengelaia’s comedy The Train Went On and On and has been producing commercials in Georgia. House of Others is her feature film debut. It won the main prize in the East of West section at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. // Films (selection): Skhvisi sakhli (House of Others, 2016)
Competition Fiction 2017
Rusudan Glurjidze
Georgien / Russland / Spanien / Kroatien 2016
color
103 Minuten
OmeU
Drehbuch David Chubinishvili, Rusudan Glurjidze
Kamera Gorka Gómez Andreu
Schnitt Grigol Palavandishvili, Dmitri Chistyakov, Levan Koukhashvili
Ton/Sounddesign Hrvoje Šimić, Dario Domitrović, Dominik Krnjak
Mit Zurab Magalashvili, Olga Dykhovichnaya, Ia Sukhitashvili, Salome Demuria, Ekaterine Japaridze, Branko Djurich, Alexander Khundadze
Produzent*innen Zurab Magalashvili (Cinetech Film Production, GE), Nadezhda Gorshkova, Katerina GecmenWaldeck (Liga Production, RU), SARKE Group (GE), Embrio (ES), Kinoscopik (HR)
Produktion
Cinetech Film Production Dzmebi Kakabadzeebi Street 2 0108 Tbilisi Georgia ycfgeo@yahoo.com
Österreichpremiere
Weltpremiere / World Premiere Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2016
Premierenstatus / Premiere Status
Austrian Premiere