The Sun of the Sleepless

The Sun of the Sleepless Georgian , translit.Udzinarta mze is a 1992 Georgian drama film directed by Temur Babluani. It was entered into the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Silver Bear for an outstanding artistic contribution.

The film is about a doctor named Gela Bendeliani Elgudzha Burduli and his wealthless family in Tbilisi in Soviet Georgia. In the film Gela Bendeliani has an unlimited capacity for generosity and forgiveness. He has been working in a government institution, privately experimenting on white mice foryears to find a cure for cancer. The authorities disapprove of his work and he has already been thrown out of his job many times.Dato, his son, has been in constant trouble with the law. He apparently loves his father but it is clear that neither father nor son understand each other. Dato is involved in vaguely criminal dealings although he and his criminal friends spend their hours together in an automobile workshop. The rest of the film is about Datos doings with and without his father, Datos success at crime and Gela Bendelianis tragic failure in science. In the end, Dato is the only one that believes in his father. ........

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