Pirosmani

Niko Pirosmani, a primitivist painter from Georgia, former Soviet Union, who was born in 1863 and died in 1918 an indigent alcoholic, was a distant relative of the Greek “naive” painter Theofilos – a self-taught and humble flaneur. His compatriot, Giorgi Shengelaya, presents his life and work through a rigorous reconstruction of that era, in a film dominated by Pirosmani’s paintings. At the same time, this cinematic portrait is of a free and rebellious man, who was deeply attached to the history and tradition of his homeland; a true artist whο lived his life completely absorbed in painting, unfettered by academic commitments and artistic conventions of any kind, giving the multiply misinterpreted term “naive art” a deeper meaning and great aesthetic value.

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Script: Giorgi Shengelaya, Erlom Akhvledian

Cinematography: Konstantin Apryatin

Music: Nodar Gabunia, Vakhtang Kukhianidze

Actors: Avtandil Varazi (Niko Pirosmani), Dodo Abashidze, Givi Aleqsandria, Spartak Bagashvili, Teimuraz Beridz

Production: Gruziya Film, USSR & Qartuli Pilmi, USSR

Producers: S. Kvaratskhelia

Costumes: Gulnara Qurdiani

Production Design: Vaso Arabidze

Format: 35mm Color

Production Country: Soviet Union