''Scary Mother'' ( ka, საშიში დედა; Sashishi Deda) is a 2017 Georgian
drama film
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directed by
Ana Urushadze. At the 23rd
Sarajevo Film Festival
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, the film won the top prize, the
Heart of Sarajevo
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Heart of Sarajevo
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.
It was selected as the Georgian entry for the
Best Foreign Language Film
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Best Actor/Best Actress
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at the
90th Academy Awards
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, but it was not nominated.
Actress, Nato Murvanidze won the award for Best Performance by an Actress at the 2017
Asia Pacific Screen Awards
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for her performance in the film.
Plot
Manana, a middle-aged woman, hopes to find herself by secretly penning a darkly erotic thriller. She hides the writing from her husband Anri, but tensions heighten after she lets him read an excerpt.
Cast
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Nato Murvanidze as Manana
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Dimitri Tatishvili as Anri
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Ramaz Ioseliani as Nukri
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Avtandil Makharadze
Avtandil Ivanovich Makharadze ( ka, ავთანდილ მახარაძე; born 16 July 1943) is a Georgian actor.
He was born in Batumi. Active since the 1970s. Avtandil Makharadze started his acting career as a student at Shota Ru ...
as Jarji
See also
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References
External links
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2017 films
2017 drama films
2010s Georgian-language films
Drama films from Georgia (country)
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