''Brighton 4th'' ( ''meotkhe Brait’oni'') is a 2021 Georgian

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directed by

Levan Koguashvili Levan Koguashvili ( ka, ლევან კოღუაშვილი; March 18, 1973) is a Georgian film director and screenwriter. He studied in Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography after graduating school. Biography Levan Koguashvili was bo ...

. It was selected as the Georgian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the

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Plot

A former Olympic wrestler from

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helps his adult son in

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to get his life on track.

Cast

Levan Tediashvili Levan Tediashvili ( ka, ლევან თედიაშვილი; born 15 March 1948 in Gegmoubani, Georgian SSR) is a former Soviet (Georgian) wrestler and Olympic champion in Freestyle wrestling in 1972 and 1976. He remained undefeated b ...

* Giorgi Tabidze *

Kakhi Kavsadze Kakhi Kavsadze ( ''K’akhi K’avsadze''; June 5, 1935 – April 27, 2021) was a Georgian and Soviet film, television and stage actor. Early life He was born in Tbilisi. After his birth, his parents moved to Tkibuli. His father David Kavsadze ...

Nadezhda Mikhalkova Nadezhda Nikitichna Mikhalkova (russian: Надежда Никитична Михалкова; born September 27, 1986) is a Russian actress. Nadezhda is the youngest daughter of actor and film director Nikita Mikhalkov and fashion designer Taty ...

* Irakli Kavsadze * Tornike Bziava * Anastasia Romashko

Reception

Critical response

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, the film holds an approval rating of 89% based on 27 reviews, with an average rating of 7.5/10.

Awards

The film won best picture award at

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2021 in Los Angeles. At the

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2021, it won three awards: best international film, best actor for

, and best screenplay for

Boris Frumin Boris Moiseevich Frumin (russian: Борис Моисеевич Фрумин, lv, Boriss Frumins; born 24 October 1947) is a Soviet, American and Latvian film director and screenwriter. Career Frumin's film '' Errors of Youth'' was screened ...

. At FilmFestival Cottbus 2021, the film also won three awards: Outstanding Individual Performance, for Levan Tediashvili; also the

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, and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury.

References

External links

* 2021 films 2021 drama films Drama films from Georgia (country) 2020s Georgian-language films {{2020s-drama-film-stub