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The Sun of the Sleepless
DVD cover
Directed byTemur Babluani
Written byTemur Babluani
StarringGivi Sikharulidze
Release date
  • 1992 (1992)
Running time
123 minutes
CountryGeorgia
LanguageGeorgian

The Sun of the Sleepless (Georgian: უძინართა მზე, translit. Udzinarta mze) is a 1992 Georgian drama film directed by Temur Babluani. It was entered into the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Silver Bear for an outstanding artistic contribution.[1]

The film had been directed since 1985 till 1992. The film was translated into several languages using voice-over technique as well as subtitles (e.g. German, English).

Catchphrases and a soundtrack (more precisely melody which is a leitmotif of this film) of the film are very widespread among Georgian people. Occasionally vulgar words occur in the film.

The director has dedicated the work to his father, who is also a doctor.

Plot

The film is about a doctor named Gela Bendeliani (Elgudzha Burduli) and his wealthless family in Tbilisi in Soviet Georgia. In the film Gela Bendeliani has an unlimited capacity for generosity and forgiveness. He has been working in a government institution, privately experimenting on white mice for 23 years to find a cure for cancer. The authorities disapprove of his work and he has already been thrown out of his job many times.

Dato, his son, has been in constant trouble with the law. He apparently loves his father but it is clear that neither father nor son understand each other. Dato is involved in vaguely criminal dealings although he and his criminal friends spend their hours together in an automobile workshop. The rest of the film is about Dato’s doings with and without his father, Dato’s success at crime and Gela Bendeliani’s tragic failure in science. In the end, Dato is the only one that believes in his father.[2]

Cast

References

  1. ^ "Berlinale: 1993 Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Retrieved 7 June 2011.
  2. ^ Raghvendra, M.K. "The Sun of the Sleepless by Temur Babluani (Georgia)", http://dearcinema.com/column/the-sun-of-the-sleepless-by-temur-babluani-georgia/5622, acc date: June 27 20012
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