Screenplay: Otar Iosseliani
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Otar Iosseliani. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
And Then There Was Light
1989 · Movie · 105 min. · France
Direction Otar Iosseliani
Cast Sigalon Sagna · Saly Badji · Binta Cissé · Marie-Christine Dieme
Plot The film depicts the daily life in an African village. The people sleep, eat, make love, pray for rain etc while civilization, by way of timber trucks and tree fellers,...
7.3
38 votes
7.3
38 votes
April
1961 · Movie · 50 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Otar Iosseliani
Cast Tatiana Tchantouria · Guia Tchirakadze · Akaki Tchikvaidze
Plot A young man and woman fall in love in the city of Tbilisi and move into a small empty apartment. Their love makes the apartment come alive, but it is...
7.0
89 votes
7.0
89 votes
Pastorale
1975 · Movie · 94 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Otar Iosseliani
Cast Nana Iosseliani · Tamar Gabarashvili · Mikhail Naneishvili · Nukri Davitashvili
6.9
54 votes
6.9
54 votes
Georgian Ancient Songs (S)
1969 · Documentary · 20 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Otar Iosseliani
6.9
71 votes
6.9
71 votes
Lived Once a Song-Thrush
1970 · Movie · 85 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Otar Iosseliani
Cast Gela Kandelaki · Gogi Chkheidze · Jansug Kakhidze · Irine Jandieri
Plot Gia is a carefree young percussionist who works at a theater in Tbilisi, Georgia. He lives in a small apartment with his mother. Gia spends his days flitting from friend...
6.8
123 votes
6.8
123 votes
Song About a Flower (S)
1959 · Documentary · 18 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Otar Iosseliani
6.8
39 votes
6.8
39 votes
Tudzhi (S)
1964 · Documentary · 20 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Otar Iosseliani
Plot Documentary of the Rustavi Metal Works, in the country of Georgia.
6.6
52 votes
6.6
52 votes
Farewell, Home Sweet Home
1999 · Movie · 100 min. · France
Direction Otar Iosseliani
Cast Nico Tariaelashvili · Lily Lavina · Philippe Bas · Stéphannie Hainque
Plot Nicholas is the eldest son of a wealthy suburban family, whose businesswoman mother makes deals from a helicopter and has an affair with her business partner. His cheerful, alcoholic father,...
6.4
389 votes
6.4
389 votes
Favourites of the Moon
1984 · Movie · 111 min. · France
Direction Otar Iosseliani
Cast Katja Rupé · Alix de Montaigu · François Michel · Jean-Pierre Beauviala
Plot Director Otar Iosseliani hit the nail on the head when describing Favorites of the Moon as "an abstract comedy." Indeed, if ten different people who saw the film were asked...
6.4
65 votes
6.4
65 votes
Monday Morning
2002 · Movie · 120 min. · France
Direction Otar Iosseliani
Cast Jacques Bidou · Anne Kravz-Tarnavsky · Narda Blanchet · Radslav Kinski
Plot Vincent works in a chemical plant and every Monday morning it’s the same old routine. When he comes back home after work, he must look after his family, wife, children,...
6.2
440 votes
6.2
440 votes
Sept pièces pour cinéma noir et blanc (S)
1983 · Documentary · 25 min. · France
Direction Otar Iosseliani
Cast Otar Iosseliani · Philippe Cousin · Daniel Bouche-Billy
Plot Sketches without dialogues include empty faces in the subway, two singing drunkards, an old man with a cane leaves an apartment and disappears on a street bench, chewing citizens and...
6.2
30 votes
6.2
30 votes
Gardens in Autumn
2006 · Movie · 115 min. · France
Direction Otar Iosseliani
Cast Séverin Blanchet · Jacynthe Jacquet · Otar Iosseliani · Lily Lavina
Plot Vincent is a minister in power, not too ugly, good drinker, eater, pretty mistress. As soon as he loses his job, she drops him. Then Vincent starts living again. Little...
5.7
77 votes
5.7
77 votes
Winter Song
2015 · Movie · 117 min. · France
Direction Otar Iosseliani
Cast Rufus Magloire · Amiran Amiranashvili · Pierre Étaix · Mathias Jung
5.5
47 votes
5.5
47 votes
Chantrapas
2010 · Movie · 122 min. · France
Direction Otar Iosseliani
Cast Dato Tarielachvili · Tamuna Karumidze · Fanny Gonin · Givi Sarchimelidze
Plot Nicolas is an artist, a filmmaker who merely wants to express himself and whom everyone wishes to reduce to silence. When he first starts out in Georgia, the "ideologists" hope...
5.4
39 votes
5.4
39 votes
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Chasing Butterflies (The Butterfly Hunt)
1992 · Movie · 115 min. · France
Direction Otar Iosseliani
Cast Narda Blanchet · Pierette Pompom Bailhache · Aleksandr Cherkasov · Thamara Tarassachvili
Plot A noble family of France maintains dignity despite the onslaught of modernism and non-white immigrants.
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Brigands-Chapter VII
1996 · Movie · 129 min. · Georgia
Direction Otar Iosseliani
Cast Amiran Amiranashvili · Davit Gogibedashvili · Giorgi Tsintsadze · Nino Ordjonikidze
Plot This picture interlinks three stories on three different time levels. It starts in the present; today's Georgia is shaken by riots. Three friends are muddling through. Soon we concentrate on...
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