Andro sakvarelidze biography
•
The story is told with irony and comedy
Sandro played by Andro Sakvarelidze is a high school history teacher in his forties who still lives with his parents played with comic skill by Kakhi Kavadze and Marina Kartsivadze who constantly nag him about not being married yet.
His friend Iva played by Archil Kikodze is the high school football coach. Iva convinces singleton Sandro to go on a blind date with a couple of women. Sandro agrees to go but only Sandro’s date, Lali played by Marika Antadze, shows up.
Having failed to click on the blind date a few days later Sandro goes on a trip to the Black Sea with Iva. There they meet one of Iva’s students who is visiting the seaside with her mother Manana played by the beautiful Ia Sukhitashvili. Sandro and Manana fall in love but unfortunately Manana is already married although her husband Tengo played Vakhtang Chachanidze by is in jail. Things get complicated when the violent and jealous Tengo is released.
Sandro goes with Manana t
•
Blind Dates
Description
Stuck living at home with his parents and still single at 40, schlubby Sandro (Andro Sakvarelidze) has zero prospects when it comes to finding true love. Set-ups with women visiting from the Georgian provinces and nights out with his ever-optimistic best friend (Archil Kikodze) only make the situation seem that much more hopeless. Fate lends a hand when this history teacher runs into a former student’s mom, Manana (Ia Sukhitashvili). Their chemistry is immediate, but there’s a catch: Manana’s husband, a man with a history of violence, is getting out of prison the next day. And when Sandro inadvertently ends up chauffeuring her slippery spouse around, things quickly go from bad to worse. The winner of a special jury prize at the Abu Dhabi bio Festival, Levan Koguashvili’s romantic tragicomedy throws any number of obstacles at its smitten hero: pregnant refugees, interfamilial feuds, DOA dates, violent gangsters and one con man of an
•
Filmek
RANDOM PICTURES
Good Night
Germany / Georgia
Director: Giga CHKHEIDZE & Andro SAKVARELIDZE
43 min. 2009, Black & White,
without dialogue
Distributor: Giga Chkheidze
Producer: Giga Chkheidze
Screenplay: Giga Chkheidze, Andro Sakvarelidze
Cinematographer: Giga Chkheidze
Editor: Giga Chkheidze
http://www.gigacinema.de
Human phantasy, brutal and violent and at same time childish and naïve; aggressive imagination, destroying in no time the boundaries of the reality, spoiling the charm of others secure and carefree lives; unsafeness and insecurity of actors, while anyone is allowed to enter their world, to have a curious look inside of their private sphere; darkness, full of nightmares and anxiety, occuring with a twilight and disappearing at daybreak, until the next night begins, as one’s imagination focuses anew on its new victim…
Is there any demarcation line between passion and aggression, between our everyday or