Georgisches Film Festival: Vater eines Soldaten

A profound, emotional and humanistic masterpiece that illuminates the horrors of war through the eyes of a simple Georgian peasant, an unforgettable monument to the humanity that is not lost even in the darkest hours of conflict.

Director: Reso Tscheidse, USSR 1964, 89 min.

A winegrower leaves his village in Georgia to visit his son, who is in hospital near the front. He witnesses the retreat and advance of the Soviet army during the Second World War. A film of humanitarian sentiment, made with conventional means and with powerful acting.