Lucky Village + Intro
Ciné Lumière17 Queensberry Place, London
Thu 1 Oct · 15:45
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Lucky Village is a 1993 Anglo-Georgian feature film that originally premiered on Channel 4. Directed by Giorgi Levashov-Tumanishvili, the television film was produced in collaboration with the influential British producer and Channel 4 commissioning editor David Rose. The ward of the Narcotics Unit of the Tbilisi mental hospital is an unexpected haven from the civil war which rages beyond the bars and the walls of the hospital. A new patient is admitted – a middle-aged alcoholic. As a voluntary inmate of ‘Lucky Village’ he pieces together the fragments of his childhood in the streets of Stalin’s Georgia. Into this world steps Michael, a British diplomat, suffering from the DTs. Lucky Village began filming in Georgia in May 1991 and was completed in extraordinary conditions of counter-revolution and imperial collapse, military take-over and civil war.
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