Otar Iosseliani at the Berlinale of 2002

Otar Iosseliani (Georgian: ოთარ იოსელიანი; born February 2, 1934 in Tbilisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic) is a Georgian-French film maker. Due to censorship, his films were repeatedly banned in the USSR, inducing Iosseliani to migrate to France in 1982.

Iosseliani's first full-length motion picture, "November" (1966) (Giorgobistve), won a FIPRESCI-prize at the Cannes Film Festival. His film "Pastorale", after it was finished in 1976, was not released, but disappeared for several years in the Soviet archives, and was allowed only a limited distribution later. Once again Iosseliani got an impression that his artistic freedom was stolen. After the success of "Pastorale" at the Berlin Film Festival in 1982, he emigrated from the Soviet Union to France.

In 1984 he filmed Favorites of the Moon in France; the film received a prize at the Venice Film Festival the same year and became an international success for Iosseliani. In the following years his films were again awarded prizes at the Venice Film Festival (And Then There Was Light (1989), Brigands-Chapter VII (1996)). Monday Morning (2002) won Ioseliani a Silver Bear prize at the Berlin Film Festival.

[edit] Filmography

• Akvarel (1958) (TV)
• Sapovnela (1959)
• April (1961) / Ap'rili
• Tudzhi (1964)
• Falling Leaves, (1966) / Giorgobistve
• Georgian Ancient Songs (1969) / Dzveli qartuli simgera
• There Once was a Singing Blackbird (1970) Iqo shashvi mgalobeli
• Pastorale (1975) / Past'orali
• Lettre d'un cinéaste (1982) (TV)
• Sept pièces pour cinéma noir et blanc (1983)
• Euzkadi été 1982 (1983) (TV)
• Favorites of the Moon (1984) / Favoris de la lune, Les
• Un petit monastère en Toscane (1988)
• And Then There Was Light (1989) / Et la lumière fut
• Chasing Butterflies, aka Hunting Butterflies, aka The Butterfly Hunt (1992) / Chasse aux papillons, La
• Seule, Georgie (1994)
• Brigands-Chapter VII (1996) / Brigands, chapitre VII
• Farewell, Home Sweet Home (1999) / Adieu, plancher des vaches!
• Monday Morning (2002) / Lundi matin
• Gardens in Autumn (2006) / Jardins en automne

[edit] External links

• Otar Iosseliani at the Internet Movie Database

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