7 Films & TV Shows Set In Georgia During The 20th Century
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F9
California Scotland England 🇬🇪 Georgia 🇩🇪 Germany Tokyo Prefecture Space - General The 1980s The 1990s The 2020sJustice is coming. — Dominic Toretto and his crew battle the most skilled assassin and high-performance driver they've ever encountered: his forsaken brother.
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Ali and Nino
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan 🇬🇪 Georgia The 1910sWhile the world was falling apart, they were falling in love. — Muslim prince Ali and Georgian aristocrat Nino have grown up in the Russian province of Azerbaijan. Their tragic love story sees the outbreak of the First World War and the world’s struggle for Baku’s oil. Ultimately they must choose to fight for their country’s independence or for each other.
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Tangerines
🇬🇪 Georgia The 1990sWar in Abkhazia, 1992. An Estonian man Ivo has stayed behind to harvest his crops of tangerines. In a bloody conflict at his door, a wounded man is left behind, and Ivo is forced to take him in.
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A Chef in Love
🇬🇪 Georgia The 1920sThe story of Pascal Ichak, a larger-than-life French traveller, bon vivant, and chef, who falls in love with Georgia and a Georgian princess in the early 1920s. All is well until the arrival of the Red Army of the Caucasus, as the Soviet revolution that has swept Russian comes to Georgia. Told as a flashback from the present, as a French-Georgian man whose mother was Pascal's lover translates his memoirs for Pascal's niece.
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The Passport
🇦🇹 Austria 🇬🇪 Georgia 🇷🇺 Russia 🇮🇱 Israel The 1980sA man, who becomes mistaken for his brother who was immigrating to Israel from USSR, finds himself caught up in the middle of a bureaucratic mess when he realizes that if he tells the truth about who he is, he will go to jail and his brother's family will never be allowed to leave the USSR. He therefore assumes his brother's identity to get to Israel hoping his distant uncle living there will help him out. The plan backfires, however, when he realizes that the uncle is a paranoid lunatic thinking the KGB is out to get him. He becomes stranded in Israel with no friends, no money, and no passport, trying to figure out a way to get back home.
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The Feasts of Valtasar, or The Night with Stalin
🇬🇪 Georgia 🇷🇺 Russia The 1900sA dance troupe from the autonomous region of Abkhazia in western Georgia perform for Stalin, Lavrentiy Beria, Abkhaz leader Nestor Lakoba, and other high-ranking party officials in the Black Sea coastal town of Gagra.
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The Murder of General Gryaznov
🇬🇪 Georgia The 1900sRevolutionary uprising of Georgian laborers in 1905.
