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Saturday, Nov 26, 2022
4:30 PM (110 mins)
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Pirosmani
BAMPFA Collection
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
Avtandil Varazi, Dodo Abashidze, Givi Aleqsandria, Spartak Bagashvili,
Pirosmani is a poetic biography of the great Georgian primitive artist Nikoloz (Niko) Pirosmanishvili (1862–1918), who worked prior to 1920. Shengelaia avoids the usual clichés of films about artists’ lives, successfully experimenting with color control techniques based on the painter’s style. Avtandil Varazi plays the gentle, uncompromising artist, who sold his paintings to bars and restaurants for food and drink and worked mostly in solitude. After its American premiere at BAMPFA in 1974, this delicately expressive film won the Grand Prize at the Chicago Film Festival and went on to international critical acclaim.
FILM DETAILS
Screenwriter
- Giorgi Shengelaia
- Erlom Akhvlediani
Cinematographer
- Konstantin Apryatin
Language
- Georgian
- with English subtitles
Print Info
- Color
- 35mm
- 85 mins
Source
- BAMPFA
CINEFILES
CineFiles is an online database of BAMPFA's extensive collection of documentation covering world cinema, past and present.
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Film : Pirosmani (review), Village Voice, Tom Allen, 1978
[Pirosmani] (review), Soho Weekly News, 1978
New directors / new films : Pirosmani (program note), The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1975
Pirosmani (program note), Los Angeles International Film Exposition, 1975
Niko Piromanshvili (book excerpt), Sov. Khudozhnik, P`irosmanasvili, Niko, 1862?-1918 -- Niko P`irosmanasvili, 1967
Soviet cinema : Yesterday and today : Pirosmani (program note), Los Angeles International Film Exposition
Pirosmani (program note), Brian Baxter, London Film Festival
Pirosmani (review), San Francisco Bay Guardian, Zena Jones
Pirosmani (distributor materials), Sovexportfilm
Pirosmani (program note)
Displaying 10 of 17 publicly available documents.
Followed By
Arabesque on a Pirosmani Theme
(Arabesjebi Pirosmanuz temaze)
Sergei Parajanov, USSR, 1985
A poetic meditation on the work of the Georgian painter Niko Pirosmani.
FILM DETAILS
Screenwriter
- Kora Tsereteli
Cinematographer
- N. Paliashvili
Language
- Georgian
- Russian
- English
Print Info
- Color
- 35mm
- 25 mins
source
- BAMPFA