Otar Iosseliani

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Otar Iosseliani (Georgian ოთარ იოსელიანი; born February 2, 1934 in Tbilisi, Georgia) is a Georgian-French film maker. Due to censorship, his films were repeatedly banned in the USSR, inducing Ioseliani to migrate to France in 1982.

Iosseliani's first full-length motion picture, "November" (1966) (Giorgobistve), won a FIPRESCI-prize at the Cannes Film Festival. His film "Pastorale", after it was finished in 1976, was not released, but disappeared for several years in the Soviet archives, and was allowed only a limited distribution later. Once again Iosseliani got an impression that his artistic freedom was stolen. After the success of "Pastorale" at the Berlin Film Festival in 1982, he emigrated from the Soviet Union to France.

In 1984 he filmed Favorites of the Moon in France; the film received a prize at the Venice Film Festival the same year and became an international success for Iosseliani. In the following years his films were again awarded prizes at the Venice Film Festival (And Then There Was Light (1989), Brigands-Chapter VII (1996)). Monday Morning (2002) won Ioseliani a Silver Bear prize at the Berlin Film Festival.

[edit] Filmography

Source: IMDB

Akvarel (1958) (TV)
Sapovnela (1959)
April (1961) / Aprili
Tudzhi (1964)
November (1966) / Giorgobistve
Georgian Ancient Songs (1969) / Dzveli qartuli simgera
Lived Once a Song-Thrush, aka Once Upon a Time There Was a Singing Blackbird (1970) Iko shashvi mgalobeli
Pastorale (1975) / Pastorali
Lettre d'un cinéaste (1982) (TV)
Sept pièces pour cinéma noir et blanc (1983)
Euzkadi été 1982 (1983) (TV)
Favorites of the Moon (1984) / Favoris de la lune, Les
Un petit monastère en Toscane (1988)
And Then There Was Light (1989) / Et la lumière fut
Chasing Butterflies, aka Hunting Butterflies, aka The Butterfly Hunt (1992) / Chasse aux papillons, La
Seule, Georgie (1994)
Brigands-Chapter VII (1996) / Brigands, chapitre VII
Farewell, Home Sweet Home (1999) / Adieu, plancher des vaches!
Monday Morning (2002) / Lundi matin
Gardens in Autumn (2006) / Jardins en automne