Graveyard of Dreams

Graveyard of Dreams (1997)

Drama

When the republic of Georgia declared war on the rebellious province of Abkhazia, many of the country's young artists and intellectuals responded to their government's call to fight. Every culture, it seems, needs to discover for itself that war is hell. Khaindrava's version of this aperçu is in every sense a front-line bulletin: it's a black-and-white docudrama about Georgia's attempts to subdue the rebellion in Abkhazia, made with real young soldiers and partly shot in the thick of battle. It starts with the eagerness of students and intellectuals to volunteer for the Georgian army and ends with the deaths of many. Khaindrava, several times imprisoned for dissidence in USSR days, knows all about the conflict: he helped launch it when he was made Minister for Abkhazian Affairs - a post he soon quit. He should have watched Hell Is for Heroes before he took the job.

Director: Goga Khaindrava

Casts

	Giorgi Nakashidze as
	bacho bachukashvili as
	avtandil skhirtladze as
	nino murjikneli as
	zaza cicishvili as
	zurab eristavi as
	aleko cenadze as
	kakha xaradze as
	lasha esebua as
	zurab gorgadze as
	tamaz berejiani as

Crew