SARTRE AND de BEAUVOIR TRIBULATIONS TO CAUCASUS…

Synopsis:
This film is like the chronicle of strange travels and stays lived by Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir in USSR and through Caucasus, in Georgia and in Armenia, during 1963-1965 summers.
Unflagging by Simone de Beauvoir’s account published in her book Tout compte fait, the film shows those unchanged caucasian landscapes in forty years, even if the two transcaucasian republics have had the experience of USSR break down,wars and earthquakes.
From Tbilissi to Erevan and Vilnius, Alexandre Toptchyan, writer, Mzia Bakradzé, teacher at Tbilissi University, Antanas Sutkus, photographer and other witnesses of that period take turns to relate these misunderstood escapades censured by soviet media but followed by political police….

Broadcast:
TV10 Angers
Armenian & Georgian TV

Festivals:
Montreal Art Film Festival (2004)
FIPATEL (2004)
De l’Encre à l’Ecran (Tours 2003)
Special Award Famafest Famalicao (2004)