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Georgy Paradzhanov, director
This is a film about return to the city of the character’s childhood after 20 years.
Unfortunately, he doesn’t find anyone alive there.
He appears in his destroyed (or it is better to say “shabby”) house,
and his childhood passes in front of his eyes in memory during the whole movie.
At the end he comes to fortune-teller Nina.
It is a mystic character, and Lore, Tonino Guerra’s wife, had to play it.
Tonino had to cast in my film and play an old tram-driver.
It is not his blame, but he let us down, and Lore had to quit too.
But I have found an outstanding actress who played fortune-teller Nina, but she is an old blind woman.
People come to Nina in morning and tell her their bad dreams.
Nina bottles them up and says: “Your dream is gasping.”
And in the end these bottles choked her.
The leading character comes to her and says: “Nina I came to you to tell my last dream.”
She said: “Please, don’t. Help me to die. Neither the sky nor earth welcomes me.”
He says: “What can I do?”
She says: “Open the bottles to make dreams return to people, as it seems nobody dreams these days.”
And then he opens bottles and she says: “Thank you. Thank you, Harry.”
And then she’s gone.
What do I expect from Moscow Premiere?
Like any other director – why should I be cunning? –
I expect that my film will be watched with pleasure and people will like it.
Our profession means that everybody cannot like me.
Some people like caramel, others – chocolate.
I had no target to shoot a movie for receive appreciation of someone.
I did an honest and direct thing.
Of course I would like my movie to be recognized, just like every director.
I don’t believe when a director says: “I shoot films for myself.”
It is not true.
In early December “All Gone” will go to the international cinema festival in Tbilisi.
One of the leading characters was played by phenomenal Avto Makharadze who played in Confession.
He came to me and said: “I want this role.”
– “You know I want to give it to you.”
Georgians are very artistic.
If you say “Play!” something crazy happens.
My morning started from taking a megaphone and saying “My friends, today we don’t play, we have a rehearsal.”
Then I hinted to Sergey Machilsky and he shot rehearsals.
When I said “Action!” something crazy happened.
That is why I said they: we don’t shoot.
And Georgia is certainly more important for me than Oscar.