Some Interviews on Personal Matters
The Most Important Art: a late Soviet cinema playlist from Ian Christie
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1h 34m
Directed by Lana Gogoberidze • 1978 • USSR/Georgia
A pioneering work of feminist filmmaking from the legendary Lana Gogoberidze, Some Interviews on Personal Matters is one of the most vital films produced in Soviet Georgia. The iconic Sofiko Chiaureli (The Colour of Pomegranates) stars as a journalist struggling to balance her commitment to her work and the demands of her unfaithful husband. Gogoberidze drew on her own tumultuous life story for this portrait of a woman in search of the true meaning of equality
SOME INTERVIEWS ON PERSONAL MATTERS • რამდენიმე ინტერვიუ პირად საკითხებზე
Directed by Lana Gogoberidze
Written by Erlom Akhvlediani, Zaira Akhvlediani, Lana Gogoberidze
Cinematography by Nugzar Erkomaishvili
Music by Giya Kancheli
Starring: Sofiko Chiaureli, Gia Badridze, Ketevan Orakhelashvili
In Georgian with English subtitles
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