Their Kingdom (1928)

Genre : Documentary

Runtime : 20M

Director : Nutsa Gogoberidze, Mikhail Kalatozov

Synopsis

The documentary Their Kingdom, co-directed in 1928 by Nutsa Gogoberidze and Mikhail Kalatozishvili (Kalatozov) for Soviet Georgia’s Cinema Trust, was considered lost until 2008, when there appeared a possibility that this important film – Georgia’s first documentary feature and Kalatozov’s directorial debut – had not disappeared irretrievably.

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Nutsa Gogoberidze
Nutsa Gogoberidze
Director
Mikhail Kalatozov
Mikhail Kalatozov
Director

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