2018, 97 minutes
This is a poetic portrait of a small village filmed across the seasons. It focuses on family relations and issues of working the land in a timeless place of transience and refuge.
Directed By: | Grace McKenzie |
Country: | Georgia / Australia |
Language: | Georgian, Ossetian, German, French, Georgian Sign |
Subtitles: | English |
Filmmaker Grace McKenzie came across the village of Argokhi by bicycle. So intrigued by the inhabitants and their history, she returns again and again to document life across the seasons. We meet Jimmy, a subsistence farmer who is deaf. His family are of mixed Ossetian and Georgian origins. Jimmy's mother arranged his marriage. It failed and Jimmy returned to inherit his grandmother's turkeys. Their neighbour Sveta, who knew nothing of farming now has a vineyard, and Frenchman Jean-Jacques brings change. In the Land of Wolves is a poetic symphony of the Georgian village of Argokhi.
Appearing
JIMMY KORBEZASHVILI
ANO MEZVRISHVILI
OTAR KORBEZASHVILI
NORA KORBEZASHVILI
NANA KHARATI
SVETLANA MELADZE
EMZARI MELADZE
KOBA MELADZE
JEAN-JACQUES JACOB
ROSA DEGENHARDT
JANNES ROSIG
JOHANNA MARIE RICHTER
MARIA STENGLEIN
THALIA STASCHOK
RAINER SAX
KHATUNA ARATANASHVILI
MARCO BUONOMO
TIPHAINE CHEVEAU
TOBIAS, PIERRE, ZOÉ & INKEN
EMZARI MANAVLISHVILI
TEKO MANAVLISHVILI
RUBEN MANAVLISHVILI
LALI ZUCHRUKADZE
TEA JAVAKHISHVILI
MAIA RAZMADZE
NIKA KAVTARADZE
MZIA KOTSKHISHVILI
ASIK KOTSKHISHVILI
NINO ICHUAIDZE
ANNA-MARIA ICHUAIDZE
ELSA TORKINASHVILI
NODARI TORKINASHVILI
NATO TORKINASHVILI
TAMAR RAJEBASHVILI -TSANKASHVILI
SABA TSANKASHVILI
LIZI TSANKASHVILI
MANANA TSUKOSHVILI
NANO RAZMADZE
VANO DANELISHVILI
MANANA JAVAKHISHVILI
MAIA DANELISHVILI
DAVID GURASPISHVILI
SOSO KOTSKHISHVILI
ALAN TEDESHVILI
RUSLAN KHINTCHAGASHVILI
REZO MAMULASHVILI
VADIM TEDESHVILI
DODIKA VALISHVILI
WASSIKO KIKISHVILI
ALIKA MEKVEVRISHVILI
ROBINSON GOBESHVILI
REBECCA GOBESHVILI
SERGO PILISHVILI
VEPKHO TEDESHVILI
ETERI TEDESHVILI
BELA TEDESHVILI
MZIA TEDESHVILI
TAMAZI VALISHVILI
TEONA VALISHVILI
MARI VALISHVILI
VALERA VALISHVILI
TEBRO KORBEZASHVILI
Director
GRACE McKENZIE
Producer
BRIAN McKENZIE
Cinematography
GRACE McKENZIE
BRIAN McKENZIE
Composer
MICHAEL ALLEN
Editor
GRACE McKENZIE
Production Assistant
MARISHA KAZARYAN
Boom Operator, 2nd unit
VAKHO MIKABERIDZE
Locations & Accomodation
JEAN-JACQUES JACOB
Georgian Assistant
TAMARA JANASHIA
Editing Consultant
KEN SALLOWS
Post Production Services
DAVID HAMMERTON
Supervising Sound Editor & Re-Recording Mixer
ANDREW NEIL
Sound Effects Editor
CAMERON GRANT
Sound Mix Facility
BOOM TRACKS
Audio Consultant
LLOYD CARRICK
Music Consultant
JOSEPH JORDANI
Colourist
CHARLIE ELLIS
Post Facility
ROAR DIGITAL
Title Design
RICHARD DE SILVA
Signing Translation & Interpreting
MAIA RAZMADZE
IZOLDA MACHAVARIANI PAPIDZE
Translation & Interpreting in Georgia
MARISHA KAZARYAN
TAMAR KVARTSKHAVA
ALEKSANDER KAJRISHVILI
MAREH SHERVASHIDZE
MARIAM KVARTSKHAVA
TAMARA JANASHIA
VAKHO MIKABERIDZE
TAMARA KURDADZE
Translation & Interpreting in Australia
DAVID BALOYAN
IRMA BALOYAN
TATIANA BAKHTADZE
German Translation
ACHIM FORST
Ossetian Translation
ELENA PAPELISHVILI
Musical Performances
Traditional folk songs: Mizangula, Giabliani, Song of Svaneti
Played and sung by Dariko, Girshel, Besso and Betkilo Firtskhelani.
“Verkhvis Potolta Tetri Lashkari”
Sung by Ano Mezvrishvili
Based on a poem by Galaktion Tabidze
Music by Jakob Bobokhidze.
Harmonic voices
Singing Swiss farmers from the group Jodlerklub Wattwil.
“Abun d bashmayo”
Sung by Yannick Loyer
“Hejo, span den Wagen an”
Based on “Hey Ho Nobody Home” Written by Thomas Ravenscroft
Sung by Johanna Marie Richter and Maria Stenglein.
“Sonata No. 37 in D”
Writen by Joseph Haydn
Performed by Johanna Marie Richter
Children’s Christmas concert performed by Telavi Public School
“Cello Concerto No. 2 in D”
Written by Joseph Haydn
Performed by Colyer Durovich
Thanks To
RUSLIN KHAJIMURIT
NATALIA MAMAGULISHVILI
LILIANE CARTER
PIERRE BARNOUX
GIORGI RAZMADZE
LIA BERDEZEMADZE
NANA KAVTARADZE
TAMAR KUCHISHVILI
ELIZABETH McKENZIE
ALICE BELL
GEORG WALTER
TELAVI DEAF UNION