Robinsonada or My English Grandfather
Robinsonada or My English Grandfather | |
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Nana Djordjadze | |
Written by | Irakli Kvirikadze |
Starring | Janri Lolashvili |
Cinematography | Levan Paatashvili |
Release date |
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Running time | 76 minutes |
Country | Soviet Union (Georgia) |
Language | Georgian |
Robinsonada or My English Grandfather (
Plot
The main story of the film is framed as the reminiscences of an aged Georgian woman recalling her love affair, many years earlier, with an English telegraph worker. Shortly before the Soviet take-over of Georgia in 1921, Christopher Hughes is sent to rural Georgia to work on a telegraph line between the UK and India, which runs through Georgian territory. (This plot element is based on the true story of the
My English Grandfather is Nana Jorjadze's first major film, based on a screenplay by her husband Irakli Kvirikadze. The theme of the foreigner stranded in Soviet Georgia, who has a love affair with a local woman, resurfaces in Jorjadze's best-known film A Chef in Love.[4] Other noteworthy features of the film include the music, composed by Enri Lolashvili, the brother of the actor Janri Lolashvili (who plays the role of Hughes in the film),[5][6] and the use of foreigners (mostly students residing in Tbilisi at the time) to voice-over the bits of English dialogue that appear in the film. One of them supplied Hughes’ voice throughout the film, including those scenes where he speaks Georgian.
Cast
- Janri Lolashvili
- Nineli Chankvetadze
- Guram Pirtskhalava
- Elgudzha Burduli
- Rusudan Bolkvadze
- Tiko Eliosidze
- Daredjan Kharshiladze
- Shalva Kherkheulidze
- Gia Lejava
- Yuri Kirs
References
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Robinsonada or My English Grandfather". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 23 July 2009.
- ^ "Les tribulations de mon grand-père anglais au pays des bolcheviks, de Nana Djordjadze". Le Monde. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
- ^ "Indo-European Telegraph Line". Retrieved 9 August 2023.
- S2CID 143794479.
- ^ "მუსიკალური პროექტი Nostalgie". Retrieved 28 August 2020.
- ^ "ენრი ლოლაშვილი". Retrieved 28 August 2020.