Musicians (Musikosebi) 1969 No Language 1080p WEB-DL x264

Year: 1969
Country: Soviet Union
Director: Mikheil Kobakhidze
Cast: Mikheil Kobakhidze, Gia Avalishvili
IMBD: Link

Language : No Language





Georgian director Mikhaïl Kobakhidzé directed five shorts between 1961 and 1969, at which point his artistic career was short-circuited by Soviet government censorship and bureaucracy. Seen over thirty years later, the films appear fresh and brimming with delicate humour. Kobakhidzé’s five short films may not change the face of film history, but they will surely add to our impression of Soviet film history. Kobakhidzé’s last film, The Musicians (1969), originally titled War and Peace (much more indicative of its theme), was meant as part of a larger feature project. The film, which toys with depth and perspective by setting two combative characters against a bleached, snowy-white landscape, was accused of that nasty neutralizing catch-all term, “formalism,” and production was halted. Kobakhidzé remained inactive cinematically until the fall of Communism in 1991. One can only lament the fact that such a gifted, unique vision was cut short in his prime.

The five shorts, Young Love (1961), Carrousel (1962), La Noce (1965), The Umbrella (1967), and The Musicians (1969), are simple on the surface, but give evidence to a remarkably intelligent understanding of image/sound relations and montage. The films are reminiscent in spirit of Sam Beckett (minimalism), Buster Keaton (use of landscape, sense of melancholy), Jacques Tati (quasi-realist sense of acute social observation) and -especially The Umbrella and The Musicians, Norman McLaren (animation techniques and overall sense of humanism). The connection, however, appears wholly by chance or creative osmosis, since Kobakhidzé states in the interview that he has no precise filmic influences, but rather sees the filmmaking process within a broader sense that includes the zeitgeist and subconscious associations.

What is most striking about the films is his use of sound and music to generate both the general emotional condition of a scene and comic effect. For example, when the two potential young lovers finally meet on the streets of Moscow in Carrousel, chirping doves fill-in for their voices. Few directors outside of animation employ sound for comic effect, and very few as well as Kobakhidzé. The freshness of his work grows out of their ability to transcend generic category, slipping in/out of such styles as street realism, social satire, whimsical fantasy and avant-garde. For example, Carrousel begins with fast-motion shots of people streaming out of their apartments, going to work, etc., in a mechanical synchronicity reminiscent of the 1920’s “city films.” A few scenes later we are on an amusement park Ferris wheel and Kobakhidzé’s framing and strong geometrical compositions recall the glorious days of Soviet Constructivism. A few shots later we enter into the fast-motion world of comic slapstick, with the male protagonist doused by a passing street truck and angrily waving his fist at the guilty driver. (Donato Totaro)

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