also known as Chemi bebia
My Grandmother1929
What makes this film worth watching?
Unique and inventive Georgian/Soviet silent with a score by the Beth Custer Ensemble.
Starring
- Bella Chernova - The Bureaucrat's Wife
- Akaki Khorava - Laborer
- E. Ovanov - The Doorman
- Aleqsandre Takaishvili - The Bureaucrat
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Member Reviews (3)
The "unconventional audio translation of the original Russian intertitles" renders the film unwatchable. No subtitles means English language viewers are reliant on an embarrassing narrator to read each intertitle aloud. The rest of the audio track is impossibly grating and features dubbed in new dialogue not included in the intertitles during conversation scenes. Film itself looks fantastic, but I could only make it through about five minutes of this butchered copy.
One of the most unique silent films I've had the pleasure of watching. Kinetic, scathing, and endlessly inventive! Georgian Harold Lloyd is awesome.
Some great comic touches, abstract approach to slapstick and social commentary; a little Kafka, a little Harold Lloyd. Love all the documentation throughout... the paper-pushing, the invoices, the newspapers, the letters. And some very inventive visual effects/animation.