Otar Ioseliani Film Collection (1958-1988) Box 1 (5 Blu-ray) [Region A]

April / Sept pièces pour cinéma noir et blanc / Euzkadi été 1982 / Un petit monastère en Toscane

Akvarel (1958)
Poor family: the wife is a laundress, the husband is a drunkard. He spends the last pennies his wife earns on drinking. And in the museum where fate takes them, they suddenly see a watercolor depicting their old house, but in the picture the house looks cozy and welcoming, and not sad, as they imagined it.

The Flower Nobody Can Find (1959)
The old gardener's flower garden is his joy and sadness. He has been caring for flowers all his life, putting them together in beautiful compositions and paintings. But strangers come, and mountain flowers die under bulldozers. It’s a sad outcome if you don’t know that grass and flowers will still break through the concrete and asphalt.

April (1961)
“April” is a story about how everyday life and possessiveness crush marital relationships, destroy the tree of love and turn off the tap of tenderness.

Tudzhi (1964)
The thesis that Ioseliani managed to defend after he failed to defend the film “April” as a thesis. But for this he had to work for a year at the Rustavi Metallurgical Plant after VGIK...

Falling Leaves (1966)
After graduation, Niko and Otar work at a winery. Otar treats everything calmly and quickly gets along with people. For Niko, everything is more complicated...

Ancient Georgian song (1969)
About ancient Georgian polyphony. In Georgia they always sing in two, three, or even four voices. A story about how these songs were constructed, what life was like in those distant times when everyone in Georgia sang.

There Once Was a Singing Blackbird (1970)
The young man rushes around the city, tries to serve everyone, tries to be nice to everyone and does not find a single minute to do work. Gia is a composer, but he works in an opera orchestra and he plays an instrument that does not require his constant presence. This instrument is called a timpani. You have to hit them once – then there’s a long pause, sometimes until the last act. And then you have to arrive in time to hit again in the final. And in between all this, he manages to commit many strange and absurd actions, for which for some reason everyone loves him.

Pastorale (1976)
A group of musicians comes to a remote village to relax and rehearse for the next musical season. Peasants live around - nice, evil... different. These two worlds look closely at each other and are surprised: how differently you can live in this world! Among them is a naive village girl, impressionable and dreamy. Peasants on the one hand, and on the other - people who have chosen such a refined thing as music as their occupation. Peasants are not sentimental; It’s us who admire - oh, how beautiful the village is! And being a professional musician sometimes means losing all connection with beauty. Refinement cannot be practiced professionally...

Sept pièces pour cinéma noir et blanc (1982)
Before starting work on the film “Favorites of the Moon,” Otar Ioseliani tried to capture on film his first impressions of Paris and the people who inhabit it.

Euzkadi été 1982 (1982)
Otar Ioseliani: “Euskadi is the name of the Basque country. The Basques are a hardworking, proud, courageous people. They speak one of the most ancient languages ​​in Europe. Their songs are melodic and complex, and their folk performances are grandiose and instructive.”

Un petit monastère en Toscane (1988)
Five monks from France live in a monastery near Montalcino.