City of the Sun
General Information
- Original Title
- Mzis qalaqi
- Author/Creator
- Oneli, Rati director
- Language
- Georgian.
- Subtitles
- English
- Published
- Georgia USA Qatar Netherlands 2017
- Physical Description
- HDD (104 min.)
- Digital ver. identifier
- HU_OSA_00006130
Contents/Summary
- Summary
- Chiatura, in western Georgia, once supplied nearly half of the world’s manganese, but today it resembles an apocalyptic ghost town. The film follows a few of its remaining inhabitants: Zurab, the music teacher, who dismantles concrete buildings and sells their iron girders to provide for his family; Archil, a miner whose real passion is amateur theatre; and two young, malnourished athletes stoically training for the next Olympic Games. Director Rati Oneli provides insight into a living environment whose bleak industrial ruins appear like a colossal film set; a city where electrical wires and aging cable cars flow like clogged arteries in an ailing organism. And yet, in a city where the sun never seems to shine, the inhabitants generate the most valuable of resources – humanity.
Subjects
- Genre
- Documentary films
Bibliographic Information
- Title Translation
- City of the Sun
Holdings
| Item Type | Current Location | Call Number | Status | Shelving Location | Public Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blu-Ray Disc | OSA Film Library | FL Record 4410 | Available | - | |
| Digital film | OSA Film Library | FL Record 4410 (HU_OSA_00006130.mp4) | Available | Access Copy, MP4 format |