Otar Iosseliani: Pastoral [პასტორალი] [OmeU] SU, 1975, R: Otar Iosseliani mit Rezo Tcharkhalichvili, Tamara Gabarachvili, Liya Tohadze-Djougali, 95 Min

A quartet of musicians spends the summer in a village and the children of the family who has rented them rooms in the attic are drawn to these visitors from the city. Iosseliani tells this story without giving the impression that any story is being told at all, continually adding new threads and inserting what feels like an infinite number of starts of new stories. PASTORALI was held back by the Soviet authorities and the films German premiere finally took place at the International Forum of New Cinema in 1982, the year when Iosseliani emigrated from the USSR.