Section: Focus

AMERIKA ERT OTAKHSHI

AMERICA IN ONE ROOM

David Kandelaki
Georgia, USA, 2007, 53 Min
Producing Centre GEMINI

As of 1994 the Georgian architect Nikoloz Gegechkori has been serving a life sentence in New York's Sing-Sing maximum security prison. He continues himself to protest his innocence, claiming to be serving the sentence for somebody else – out of love. At the same time a Parisian photographer makes her way to the United States, in order to be closer to the Georgian prisoner, who during Soviet times dreamt of nothing but freedom. This cinematic observations, set within a framework of claustrophobic prison scenes, draw us closer to the prisoner's inner world. The illusion having passed, there at least exists a dream.

Filmformat
HDCam | doc | Farbe / colour & s/w / b/w
Drehbuch
Levan Koghuashvili, David Kandelaki
Kamera
David Kandelaki
Ton
Madona Tevzadze
Schnitt
Giorgi Modebadze, Goga Mchedlishvili
Produzent
David Kandelaki
Produktion
Gemini Film Tbilisi
Co-Produktion
Tinatin Kairishvili
Kontakt
Producing Centre GEMINI
7 Svanidze Street
Tbilisi
Georgia
Tel: +995.32.224 436
gemini@gemini.ge
www.gemini.ge

David Kandelaki - born 1956 in Georgia. Graduated in architecture from the Tbilisi Academy of Fine Arts in 1980. From 1989 studies at the Georgian Institute of Theatre and Film.

Movies
TSRE (1986, doc)
DATRUNETA (1989, doc)
DZPELI ALTOMI (1992, doc)
TSARMATEBA (1999, doc)
ANBANI (2000, doc)
SAMSHVILDE (2002, doc)
KARTVELI KATOLIKEEBI (2004, doc)