The Sun Of The Sleepless
''The Sun of the Sleepless'' ( ka, უძინართა მზე ''Udzinarta mze'', "Sleeping sun") 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 outstanding artistic contribution. The film had been directed since 1985 until 1992. The film was translated into several languages through dubbing as well as subtitling. Catchphrases and a soundtrack (more precisely melody which is a leitmotif of this film) of the film are very widespread among Georgian people. Occasionally vulgar words occur in the film. The director has dedicated the work to his father, who is also a doctor. Plot 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 m ...
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Temur Babluani
Temur Babluani ( ka, თემურ ბაბლუანი) (born 20 March 1948) is a Georgian film director, script writer, and actor. Bebluani was born in the mountainous Svanetian village of Chaguri in the Georgian SSR. He graduated from Tbilisi State Theater Institute in 1979, being tutored by Tengiz Abuladze and Irakli Kvirikadze. He performed in the Soviet-era movies ''Our Youth'' (ღიმილის ბიჭები, 1969), ''Earth, This Is Your Son'' (მშობლიურო ჩემო მიწავ, 1980), and ''Cucaracha'' (კუკარაჩა, 1982); and directed ''The Flight of Sparrows'' (ბეღურების გადაფრენა, 1980), and ''The Brother'' (ძმა, 1981). His '' The Sun of the Sleepless'' (უძინართა მზე, 1992), for which he was also a composer, became a cult film in Georgia and won grand prizes at the festivals in Tbilisi (Georgia) and Sochi (Russia) as well as a Silver Bear for an outstand ...
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