Some interviews on personal questions

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Movie
German title Some interviews on personal questions
Original title რამდენიმე ინტერვიუ პირად საკითხებზე,
Несколько интервью по личным вопросам
Country of production USSR ( Georgian SSR )
original language Georgian
Publishing year 1978
length 95 minutes
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Director Lana Gogoberidze
script Saira Arsenischwili
Lana Gogoberidse
Erlom Achwlediani
production Grusija film
music Giya Kancheli
camera Nugsar Erkomaishvili
cut Sopio Matschaidze
occupation

Some interviews on personal matters , Original title: რამდენიმე ინტერვიუ პირად საკითხებზე (Ramdenime interviu pirad sakitkhebze) , Несколько интервью по личным вопросам (neskolko interwju po litschnym woprossam) is a Soviet feature film in Georgia, directed by Lana Gogoberidze was completed in 1978 .

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Sofiko is a 40-year-old journalist who answers letters to the editor for a newspaper. In this role she gets to know a lot of people with whom she has long conversations and then also writes articles about them. She is married and lives with her husband Artschil and two children, a boy and a girl aged around 14 and 12, as well as her mother in an apartment in Tblissi .

Sofiko's interlocutors have various reasons for wanting to speak to her. So she learns sad, funny but also interesting stories, which she can help with or not. One day an old woman comes into her office and says that she would like to go to a retirement home. She lives with her children, who go out of the house in the morning and are busy with themselves in the evening, which is why she is always alone. Sofiko cannot help this woman.

As is so often the case, she goes to visit her two old aunts, whom she is very fond of and who she always provides with the essentials that one needs every day. The two of them took Sofiko out of a children's home when she was about 10 years old, to which she was taken when her mother had to live in exile for many years . Now the mother lives with the Sofikos family and helps her with household chores. One day they prepare borscht , which should be enough for two days. But nothing comes of it, because Artschil, who works in a managerial position in an office, brings three of his friends home for dinner that evening. Since there is also alcohol, it will be a happy, boisterous evening. Finally, while cleaning up, Sofiko sits down at the table, completely exhausted, and thinks again about an interview that was conducted during the day. A young woman told her how happy she was with her family, her apartment and life. In the end, however, it turns out that she is homesick for the village of her childhood and that it would be best for her company, in which she likes to work, to move there. One of the next few days, the journalist is going to a village with the photographer Irakli, where she wants to deal with a problem that the director of the school has described to her. A clever businessman has secured parts of the school property, which was previously used by the students to build a house for himself and his son. Sofiko now wants to use an article to ensure that the students get their schoolyard back, which she succeeds.

Days after she was offered the post of editor-in-chief of her newspaper, which she declined because she was very happy about the current job, she saw her husband standing on the sidewalk while taking a bus. She gets up quickly and just manages to get out to go to Artschil. Shortly before she reaches him, a young woman comes up to him and they both greet each other with kisses and more caresses. The situation is so clear that Sofiko immediately turns around and continues with the next bus, not without looking at them both from the back window. In the evening there is silence at the table, then Sofiko thinks of a family about whom she once wrote an article and who were always happy simply because they sang together at every opportunity.

While walking through town, she passes the house where her photographer lives and decides to visit him. He is currently renovating his attic apartment , but she notices the many photographs in which she can be seen. Irakli goes into the kitchen to make some tea and when he comes back into the room, Sofiko is sitting on a chair and sleeping. Irakli sits across from her and watches her until she wakes up and leaves. Once home, all she can do is say goodbye to her dying mother. Later, in a decisive conversation with Artschil, Sofiko emphasizes that she will have the children who are already old enough to understand the separation and who have no regrets about their previous life.

Production and publication

Some interviews on personal questions were filmed by the working group Second Creative Studio of the Grusia film studio (Kartuli Filmi) under the working title The Dialogue , like all Georgian films in the Georgian language , and premiered on December 30, 1978 in Tblissi . The color film, dubbed in Russian for the other Soviet republics , premiered on October 1, 1979 in Moscow under the title Несколько интервью по личным вопросам .

The film should have premiered outside the USSR on February 25, 1979, within the 9th International Forum of New Cinema . However, it was withdrawn from the Soviet Union along with other films from the Berlin Film Festival in protest against the showing of the American film Deer Hunter as part of the competition program

In the GDR , the film was shown for the first time as the opening film for the VIII Festival of Soviet Cinema and TV Films in the GDR in the Kosmos cinema in Berlin on October 25, 1979. The screen premiere in the GDR saw the film on January 17, 1981 in the 2nd program of the GDR television . In the Federal Republic of Germany the film was broadcast on ZDF on June 19, 1984 .

Awards

  • 1979: 12th All Union Festival Ashchabat : 2nd main prize
  • 1979: San Remo Authors' Film Festival: Grand Prix

criticism

Horst Knietzsch wrote in Neues Deutschland about the prizes that the film has received so far and continues to write:

"Deservedly, also because a lot of the nature and attitude of the talented director and her leading actress Sofiko Tschiaureli has flowed into this sensitive and carefully watched woman's film."

In the Neue Zeit , HU noted:

“The episodically varied design of this film, true-to-life reportage-like, including memories, determined in the emotional climate by both objectivity and female warmth, gives all of this density, urgency, inevitability. Everyday stress, male egoism, a difficult childhood past - this contains wide and varied possibilities of association between this one woman's life and the life of women in general. Very distinctly individual aspects gain social representation. "

The lexicon of international films writes that the film is sensitively staged and paints a revealing picture of everyday Soviet life with charm and humor as well as an impressive portrait of a woman.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of October 25, 1979, p. 7
  2. ↑ Neue Zeit of January 17, 1981, p. 9
  3. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of October 23, 1979, p. 8
  4. ↑ Neues Deutschland, October 25, 1979, p. 4
  5. ↑ Neue Zeit of October 26, 1979, p. 4
  6. ↑ Some interviews on personal questions. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 20, 2019 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used