Sun 25 Jun

Eccentrics

Cert. tbc

Classics, Festivals & Series

Technology on Screen

შერეკილები

79 mins

in Georgian with EN subs

USSR | 1973 | dir. Eldar Shengelaia, with Vasili Chkhaidze, Demno Jgenti, Ariadna Shengelaia

Shengelaia’s most surreal feature, the suitably-titled Eccentrics spins the tall tale of Ertaoz (Demno Jgenti), an orphan who goes to jail for the sake of his lover. There he encounters renegade prisoner and latter-day Da Vinci, Qristopore (Vasili Chkhaidze), who ropes our hapless protagonist into his latest hare-brained scheme: a daring prison break on board a DIY helicopter… A cult hit in Georgia thanks to its often bewildering comic sensibilities, this is a brisk, disconcerting trip into the strange underbelly of Soviet society.

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