Movies: Fazil Iskander

A dance troupe from the autonomous region of Abkhazia in western Georgia perform for Stalin, Lavrentiy Beria, Abkhaz leader Nestor Lakoba, and other high-ranking party officials in the Black Sea coastal town of Gagra....

Based on the story "Oh, Marat!" by Fazil Iskander. The main character of the movie, Marat, lives in a coastal town near the Black Sea, he works as a photographer at the beach and is an editor at the local newspaper. But he is known for an entirely ot...

In the pre-war years in Sukhumi, Chik lived in the family of his aunt - a playful, but smart and kind boy. His days are filled with chores, studies, walks with friends, and, sometimes, skirmishes with the guys in the neighboring yard. From the attent...

A story about a countryside detectivean his hunt for the kolkhoz money thief. Based on the Fazil Iskander's novel....

The action takes place in one of the Transcaucasian republics in the sixties, where a campaign was launched to breed a new animal, the goat, descended from the mountain tour and the domestic goat....

Sofichka returns to her native Abkhaz village in Georgia after twenty years of absence. Seeing again home and meeting with villagers take her to memory lane and all Sofichka’s life passes before her eyes: her wedding with Rufus, betrayal of the neigh...

This is a story of a war between two powerful criminal gangs and their 'dons' (vory v zakone) in the communist Soviet Union. Corruption, cynical rhetoric, deaths of innocent people....

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Gerard is 12-year-old boy who lives close to the seaside. Every day he swims far from the coast because he finds his liberty, till someday something unexpected happens to him....

A growing up drama based on the stories of Fazil Iskander. The film is set in Abkhazia at the end of the Stalin era, in the late 40s - early 50s of the 20th century. 13-year-old Chik, a mischievous and contemplative person, lives the usual life of a ...

Let's part - while we're good, and no one betrayed me......