Power Trip (2003)

Жанр : документальный

Время выполнения : 1Ч 26М

Директор : Paul Devlin

Краткое содержание

Corruption, assassination and street rioting surround the story of the award-winning film, Power Trip, which follows an American multi-national trying to solve the electricity crisis in Tbilisi, capital of the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. Power Trip provides insight into today's headlines, with a graphic, on-the-ground depiction of the challenges facing globalization in an environment of culture clash, electricity disconnections and blackouts.

Актеры

Dennis Bakke
Dennis Bakke
Himself
Piers Lewis
Piers Lewis
Himself
Butch Mederos
Butch Mederos
Himself
Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly
Himself
Michael Scholey
Michael Scholey
Himself

Экипажи

Paul Devlin
Paul Devlin
Director
Paul Devlin
Paul Devlin
Cinematography
Paul Devlin
Paul Devlin
Producer
Paul Devlin
Paul Devlin
Editor
Valery Odikadze
Valery Odikadze
Cinematography
Patrick Donahue
Patrick Donahue
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Benny Mouthon
Benny Mouthon
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
William Charlton
William Charlton
Editorial Production Assistant
Luciana Fernandes
Luciana Fernandes
Editorial Production Assistant
Neil Gegna
Neil Gegna
Editorial Production Assistant
Darryl Thurston
Darryl Thurston
Editorial Production Assistant
Zurab Kazishvili
Zurab Kazishvili
Translator
Nestan Vardiashvili
Nestan Vardiashvili
Translator

Подобные

Мандарины
Сюжет картины рассказывает о событиях во время Абхазской войны 1992 года в деревне эстонских переселенцев на Кавказ. Хозяин одного из домов села, эстонец по национальности, пытается понять, какая из двух противоборствующих сторон права в развязавшемся конфликте.
5 дней в августе
Фильм повествует о войне между Грузией и Россией в 2008 году. Показываются события, какими их видят американский журналист, его оператор и грузинские жители.
А потом мы танцевали
Мераб с детства танцует в Национальном грузинском ансамбле со своей партнершей Мари. Его жизнь радикально меняется, когда он влюбляется в нового артиста труппы, Ираклия.
Торговец
A traveling trader provides a window into rural life in the Republic of Georgia, where potatoes are currency and ambition is crushed by poverty.
Our Blood Is Wine
Filmmaker Emily Railsback and award-winning sommelier Jeremy Quinn provide intimate access to rural family life in the Republic of Georgia as they explore the rebirth of 8,000-year-old wine-making traditions almost lost during the period of Soviet rule.
Angels of Sorrow
A documentary film "Angels of Sorrow", dedicated to the 80th Jubilee of a contemporary Georgian classic composer - Giya Kancheli is filmed during the concert tour in several cities of the world (Berlin, Brussels, Antwerp, Baku, Tbilisi). He is an artist, for whom the most important thing in all time was freedom. During Soviet period, he was accused of introducing morphine with his music and that he rejoiced enemies in capitalist countries with it. Giya Kancheli with his friends replied to all these from theater stage, where they reflected the whole absurdity of the Soviet Union. The war is still going on - Art can't change anything.
Гогита. Новая жизнь
Гогита отсидел в тюрьме четырнадцать лет и теперь возвращается к нормальной жизни. У него довольно простые желания: иметь собственный дом и найти хорошую жену. Но кому может быть интересен бедный фермер с криминальным прошлым, живущий с мамой? Гогита довольно быстро осваивает новые технологии знакомств в социальных сетях и готов к встрече с любовью всей своей жизни. Но образы, которые рождаются в голове героя в процессе виртуального общения, весьма далеки от реальности. Путь к обретению своей любви оказывается грустным и комичным одновременно.
Understanding The Georgian Republic
The Ruler
Stalin’s statue in the garden of a nunnery provokes discussion – plenty of it – in a small Georgian village. Some of the locals used to know Stalin personally because he visited the village several times when he was young, and they continue to see him as a benign ruler from the good old days rather than the brutal dictator he was. Whenever an episode of purge shook the Soviet Union’s republics, they hid the statue in the woods. The church also plays an important role in people’s lives. All in all, the film reveals a fundamental conflict in Georgian society.
Watermelon
In Georgia, in the middle of a desert, on the hottest day of summer two water-melon sellers cross paths.
Andro
In a post war Georgia, an unemployed architect, Andro tries to help out his family, fills the car with household junk and goes to Turkey for private trading, with his son Dato. On the border they give a ride to a Turkish hitchhiker Taner, to Trabzon. This meeting turns this harmless journey, into series of unfortunate events for Andro and his son.
The End
What happens when the imagination puts the mind into the unreal borders of false fear, the world around transforms into prison, and the only way out seems to be an escape to the new imagination, to the visual creation of the mind.
Ana
Anna is a 45 years old woman, living alone with her mother in the center of Tbilisi. One night, Anna's life takes a different turn, when at the concert, she sees the face of a woman in the crowd. How can one word change someone's life? How other's life influences our own? How can a person lose her face and identity?
Fourteen Crystals Theory
This is an animated film, which is based on the adventure novel «Fourteen Crystals Theory», written by the director himself.
Stairs
Entire film takes place on stairs. In a flat someone feels very bad and for that reason ambulance is called. The situation is becoming worse and worse. A neighbor is browsing the stuation to understand what is happening.
Three Steps
Thirteen-year-old Mariam lives with her father, Rezo, in the poor slums of Tbilisi. They share a one room shack. Mariam and Rezo are barely making a living, being forced to steal at times. Along with the struggle against poverty, Mariam also has to deal with the facts of becoming a woman and the fear that her father would betray her in order to make money.
Kite
The hero of the film - an old woman - encouraging certain circumstances (particularly cat) to recall fragments of her life. This is quite tragic past and the comes to bright striking detail - Kite, which at the end of the Accompany them old woman and his world safe for help them.
Meeting at the Refrigerator
4 minutes black humor bringing to surprising cold and dramatic story to us. Based on the story the action of the film was moved to the supermarket diary product fridge in order to add more coldness and drama to the story and to feel cold physically. The film is made in cold, blue-grayish colors as much as possible.
Geno
Film tells the story of a grumpy, reclusive toad Geno and his neighbors, who are forced to seek a new habitat because a construction site invades the pond where they live.
Hulk
Victor is a single father from a poor social class, who takes care of his autistic son Niko. To keep up with all the family expenses, Victor has to take multiple jobs, however he still can't manage to save money for Niko's proper therapy and for parental training in order to better help his beloved son in development and socializing. And one day, when Victor sees no hope, when he feels to be totally useless to his son, he takes a step that turns out to be fatal for Niko and himself.