LEADER 00000ngm a2200577Ma 4500 001 43997892 005 20080922 TAPE OCLC0922: 0073 007 mr baaufmnartnnac------ 008 080923s1955 gs 067 mlgeo d 009 Reclvl: f Addate: 080923 Addid: OCL Moddate: 080929 Modid: XRF Catid: PFA 035 (PFA-FILM)8180 035 GLADN51200002 040 CUY|eamim|cCUY|dOCL|dCUY 041 1 |heng 090 3500-01-5789 245 00 Magdanas lurja =|bMagdana's donkey|h[motion picture] / |cQartuli Pilmi ; directors, Tenghis Abuladze, Rezo Chkeidze ; written by Carlo Gogodze. 246 3 Magdana's donkey 246 3 Lurdzha Magdana 257 U.S.S.R. ; Georgia 260 Georgia :|b[s.n.],|c1955. 300 4 reels of 4 (67 min.) :|b1.37:1, opt sd., b&w ;|c35 mm. |3print. 500 Release title in the U.S.: Magdana's donkey. Release title in U.S.S.R.: Lurdzha Magdana. 500 Production credits taken from Internet movie database. 500 Running time: 01:07:00. 506 Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating.|5CUY. 506 PFA 3500-01-5789. Restricted: Not for research use. 508 Music, Archil Kereselidze ; cinematography, Aleqsandre Digmelovi, Lev Sukhov ; editing, Vasili Dolenko, O. Grevorgiani ; art direction, Joseb Sumbatashvili. 511 1 Dudukhana Tserodze, L. Moistsrapishvili, Mikho Borashvili, Nani Chiqvinidze, Akaki Kvantaliani, Karlo Sakandelidze. 520 "A first film by two young filmmakers, Tengiz Abuladze and Rezo Chkeidze, fresh out of the Institute of Cinematography in Moscow, this charming folk tale was hailed as the start of a "new wave" in Soviet cinema; winning the Grand Prix at Cannes, it was the first Georgian film to have an impact outside the USSR. In the 1890s, in a Georgian village high above a teeming town, the widow Magdana lives in a shack with her three children; walking to the town along dirt roads and rocky hillsides, she ekes out a living selling yogurt. When her children find a donkey lying by the road and nurse it to health, it seems the family's troubles are over, but the incident serves to bring out the venality of the village leaders and the court system which sides with the donkey's cruel owner. In its stunning black-and-white cinematography-in which shadows spread from the bright light of the arid countryside, and silhouettes form against a cloud-cast sky-and the extreme angularity of the shooting-the children circling the donkey, captured from an impossibly high angle, and Magdana herself shot from a heroic low-angle-Magdana's Donkey recalls the cinematographic drama of the classic Soviet silents. But here it is updated with a concern for dramatic incident and the bizarreness of 520 local characters, and for the beauty and lasting reality of regional culture"--Pacific Film Archive program note (Screened Sept. 8, 1987). 546 Dialogue and credits in Georgian with English subtitles. 590 PFA 3500-01-5789.|aPFA accession card states that film was formerly mounted on 7 reels |aCONDITION NOTE: Last inspected: 2008/08/26; Very good condition; PFA exhibition quality; reel 3 oil is quite heavy toward midreel; all leaders have been cut for automation; light to fair scratches.|aCONDITION NOTE: Inspected 2014/10/08 cv; all leaders have been cut; A/B splice on R1 remade as it was gunky/sticky; very good condition overall 655 7 Features.|2mim 655 7 Drama.|2mim 655 7 Adaptations.|2mim 690 0 Russian films. 690 0 Georgian films. 700 1 Abulaże, Tʻengiz,|d1924- 700 1 Čʻxeiże, Rezo,|d1926- 700 1 Tserodze, Dudukhana. 700 1 Moistsrapishvili, L. 700 1 Gogodze, Carlo. 700 1 Gabašvili, Ekaterine,|d1851-1938. 700 1 Digmelovi, Aleqsandre. 700 1 Sukhov, Lev. 700 1 Sumbatashvili, Joseb. 700 1 Kereseldize, Archil. 700 1 Dolenko, Vasili. 700 1 Gevorgiani, O. 700 1 Borashvili, Mikho. 700 1 Čʻikʻviniże, Nana. 700 1 Kvantaliani, Akaki. 700 1 Sakandelidze, Karlo. 710 2 Kinostudia Kʻartʻuli Pʻilmi. 935 GLADN51200002 946 PFA 3500-01-5789. Revised 2008/09/08 by cv (945); record revised 2008/09/11 by sw (245 changed, 246, 500, 520, 546, 700, 710 added, Georgian language verified); revised 2011/ 05/09 by js (300b) 948 PFA 3500-01-5789. Restricted: Not for research use. 954 20120801|bMarcive Authority Bib 956 20141203|bpfmcq|cMR 956 PFA 956 20140224|bPFA migration/merge load 957 OCLC xref loaded 20180603 994 02|bCUY