Otar Iosseliani: Brigands, Chapter VII [OmeU] FR, RU, GEO, IT, CH, 1996, R: Otar Iosseliani mit Amiran Amiranachvili, Dato Gogibedachvili, Guio Tzintsadze, 117 Min

Iosseliani's dark comedy about the history of Georgia is a parable that shows how the power structures have only changed marginally over the past centuries. The main protagonist Vano just changes his costume. As the country's king in the 15th century, he is constantly at war with his neighbors and his underlings. He pursues a career as a people's commissar in the Stalinist era and 60 years later he is an arms dealer in the mafia, profiting from the civil war and living a life of luxury in Paris.

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