LEADER 00000ngm 2200601Ma 4500 001 43997129 005 20080925 TAPE OCLC0925: 0289 007 mr cuaafunartuuac------ 008 080926m19811984gs 105 mlgeo d 009 Reclvl: f Addate: 080926 Addid: OCL Moddate: 080929 Modid: XRF Catid: PFA 035 (PFA-FILM)6987 035 GLADN51201983 040 CUY|eamim|cCUY|dOCL|dCUY 041 1 geo |arus |jeng 090 |b3500-106-5074 245 00 Plovec =|bThe swimmer|h[motion picture] /|cSovexportfilm presents ; a Georgia Film Studio production ; written and directed by Irakli Kvirikadze. 246 3 Swimmer 246 3 Plovets 246 3 Motsurave 257 U.S.S.R. ; Georgia. 260 Georgia :|bSovexportfilm,|c1981, 1984. 300 8 reels of 8 (105 min.) :|bopt sd., col. ;|c35 mm.|3print. 500 Original release title in Soviet Georgia: Plovec. Also released as: Motsurave. 500 Release title in the U.S.: The swimmer. 500 Produced in 1981, and released in an edited version in 1984. Released in the U.S. in 1986. 500 Running time: 01:45:00. 506 Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating.|5CUY. 506 PFA 3500-106-5074. Restricted: Not for research use. 508 Camera, Guram Tugushi; music, Temo Bakuzadze; art direction, Aleksandr Dshanshieu. 511 0 [Cast:] Gudea Buzduli, Ruslan Mikabezidze, Badur Zuladze. 520 "Made in 1981, released in a cut version in 1984, this offbeat comic family chronicle has only now become available in its full version. The censors must certainly have been offended by the film's staggeringly direct critique of Stalin's purges--when, for example, some kids innocently drop a porcelain figurine of Uncle Joe into a fish tank, their father disappears the next day and his photo is snipped out of the family album. But its stylization may have been another reason for the film's problems in being released: Much of the footage is in the sepia-tinted style of silent films and the story is, in Deborah Young's words, "narrated like a folktale, to the accompaniment of rinky-tink piano music, weird American songs and abstract sounds and noises." The plot tells of the lives of three generations of swimmers: Just before World War I, Durishhan's feat of outdistancing a famous English champion earns him only ridicule since, no great genius, he forgets to have it documented. His son, in the glorious '40s, organizes events like having a formation of swimmers float Stalin's portrait out to sea on a raft; he is betrayed to the secret police by his rival. Not surprisingly, Anton, the pale, overweight descendant of this line of 'heroes' resists taking the plunge as long as he can"--San Francisco International Film Festival program note, 1988. 541 0 PFA 3500-106-5074. D0106 546 Dialogue in Georgian; credits in Russian; English subtitles. 590 PFA 3500-106-5074. |aCOPY-SPECIFC DESCRIPTION: 5 reels of 5 (105 min.) : opt sd., col. ; 35 mm. print. |aCONDITION NOTE: Last inspected: 2008/08/12; Very good condition; PFA exhibition quality; light emulsion scratches|aCONDITION NOTE: Inspected 2014/12/01 gc; good condition; signs of use; light to fair scratches. 655 7 Features.|2mim 655 7 Drama.|2mim 655 7 Comedies.|2mim 690 0 Georgian films. 690 0 Russian films. 700 1 Kvirikadze, Irakliĭ. 700 1 Tugushi, Guram. 700 1 Bakuzadze, Temo. 700 1 Dshanshieu, Aleksandr. 700 1 Buzduli, Gudea. 700 1 Mikabezidze, Ruslan. 700 1 Zuladze, Badur. 710 2 Kinostudia Kʻartʻuli Pʻilmi. 935 GLADN51201983 941 0 PFA 3500-106-5074. D0106 deposit; logged in 1994 April 13. 946 PFA 3500-106-5074. Record revised 2008/09/05 by sw (260 distributor; 546 language; 520 added; director name LOC authorized); revised 2008/09/10 by cv (945); revised 2009/ 07/30 by js (948 added) 948 PFA 3500-106-5074. Restricted: Not for research use. 956 PFA 956 20140224|bPFA migration/merge load 956 20150126|bpfmcq|cMR 957 OCLC xref loaded 20150208 994 02|bCUY