Out of the Way!
1931 Georgian film
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Out of the Way! (Georgian: ხაბარდა!, Russian: Здесь падают камни), also known as Khabarda, is a 1931 silent Georgian Soviet comedy film directed by Mikheil Chiaureli.Set in Tbilisi, the film tells a satirical, and at times absurdist, narrative about clashes between the Soviet Komsomol workers and the city's petit bourgeois. The film is extant.
Mikheil Chiaureli
P. Chkoniya
Sh. Asatiani
Siko Vachnadze
Mikheil Gelovani
Valerian Gunia
| Out of the Way! | |
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| Directed by | Mikheil Chiaureli |
| Written by | Sergei Tretyakov Mikheil Chiaureli |
| Starring | Sergey Zavriev P. Chkoniya Sh. Asatiani Siko Vachnadze Mikheil Gelovani Valerian Gunia |
| Cinematography | Anton Polikevich |
Production company | JSC "Sakhkinmretsvi" |
Release date |
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Running time | 61 minutes |
| Country | Soviet Union Georgian SSR |
| Language | Silent (Georgian intertitles) |
Plot
Local communist organizations in Tblisi decide to renovate the city's crumbling old town to build new houses for workers. When they move to tear down a church on the city's outskirts, religious leaders and defenders of historical monuments attempt to mobilize against them.[1]
Cast
- Sergey Zavriev as Diomede
- P. Chkonia as Luarsabi
- Sh. Asatiani as Worker
- Siko Vachnadze as Technician
- Nikoloz Gotsiridze as Poet
- Mikheil Gelovani (uncredited)
- Valerian Gunia (uncredited)
- Viktor Gamkrelidze (uncredited)
- Zaal Terishvili (uncredited)
- Shalva Khuskivadze (uncredited)
Production
The screenplay for Out of the Way! was written in collaboration with prominent Soviet constructivist writer Sergei Tretyakov, one of the founders of the LEF. Devised as a literary scenario in six parts, it is one of the writer's few screenplays, along with Salt for Svanetia and Eliso.[2]
Reception
The film was criticized on its release for perceived insensitivity to Georgian culture.[3]
Georgian director Georgiy Daneliya stated that he particularly admired the film.[4]