The Way Home

Synopsis

The way home for Aleksandr Rekhviashvili is not charted in the conventional sense. It takes the viewer along some peculiar roads and across a unique landscape: Georgian history and legend, politics and social stratification, religion and ethics. Allusive, stylized and allegorical from beginning to end, his long-banned The Way Home is in part a tribute to Rekhviashvili’s favorite director, Pasolini, especially to The Hawks and the Sparrows (1966). Together with the short film Nutsa (1971) and the widely acclaimed Georgian Chronicle of the 19th Century (1979; SFIFF 1983), The Way Home closes a triptych of films that represent Rekhviashvili’s poetic contemplation of Georgia’s past. It makes extensive use of poems by Bella Akhmadulina (the major female poet of the cultural ‘thaw’ of the ’50s and ’60s and a Georgian by descent), and of sets by Amir Kakabadze. Like other films in the trilogy, The Way Home is stunningly photographed in black-and-white.--Oxymoron

Main Cast

Vakhtang Panchulidze

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Ramaz Chkhikvadze

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Avtandil Makharadze

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Janri Lolashvili

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Vladimer Tsuladze

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Teimuraz Bichiashvili

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Guram Pirtskhalava

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Zura Kipshidze

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Aleqsandre Rekhviashvili
Sound	Music	Vakhtang Kukhianidze
Crew	Cinematography	Archil Pilipashvili
Art	Production Design	Amir Kakabadze
Writing	Writer	Erlom Akhvlediani Rezo Kveselava Aleqsandre Rekhviashvili
Editing	Editor	Neli Devnozashvili
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