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SINCE OTAR LEFT

Director:

  Julie Bertucelli
  

Year Released:

  2003

Jan's Rating:

Rich's Rating:

4 out of 5

3.5 out of 5

Key Performances:

  Dinara Drukarova
  Esther Gorintin
  Temur Kalandadze
  Nino Khomasuridze
  Duta Skhirtladze
Movie Haiku:Slice-of-life drama set in Tbilisi, Georgia, where the characters struggle to adjust to the post-Soviet capitalist economy. A widow who lost her husband in Afghanistan shares an apartment with her mother & her daughter. The grandmother pines for her son Otar who left them to seek his fortune in Paris.

ADDITIONAL FF2 INFO ABOUT THIS FILM:

Women filmmakers?

  Yes

Jewish content?

  No

Haiku Posted:

  2004