Bread Makers

1970

10m

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Overview

This short film captures the beauty of a process that has persisted since the Stone Age. Sharing one of the recurrent stylistic motifs of the Georgian documentaries shown here, an uncanny atmosphere is created by the use of post-production sound and chiaroscuro lighting. In effect, the removal of the bread from the oven is witnessed with the same sense of wonder as would greet the appearance of a flying saucer. When sticking the dough to the tandoor, the baker moves half of his body into this dungeon – an image at once frightening and mesmerising. Nowhere else has bread been seen like this, save perhaps for Night of the Living Bread (Kevin S. O’Brien, 1990). But this is hardly a parody: here the most essential human foodstuff meets an expressionist sensibility. In fact, along with Manoel de Oliveira’s O Pão (also showing this year), Khabazebi presents some of the most beautiful images of our daily bread on screen.

Status: Released

Language: KA

Production Information

Production Companies

Georgia-Film

Production Countries

Soviet Union

Spoken Languages

Georgian

Quick Facts

Original Title	ხაბაზები
Release Date	April 6, 1970
Status	Released
Language	KA

Cast

Key Crew

Bidzina Rachvelishvili

Director

Liana Gogelia

Producer

Gia Badridze

Screenplay

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