Hostages (2017 film)

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Hostages
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Directed byRezo Gigineishvili
Written byRezo Gigineishvili
Lasha Bugadze
Produced byVladimer Katcharava, Tamara Tatishvili, Mihail Fenogenov
Starring Merab Ninidze
Tinatin Dalakishvili
CinematographyVladislav Opeliants
Music by Giya Kancheli
Distributed by20 Steps Productions
Inkfilm
Release date
  • 10 February 2017 (2017-02-10)(Berlin)
Running time
103 minutes
CountriesRussia
Georgia
LanguagesRussian
Georgian

Hostages is a 2017 drama film directed and written by Rezo Gigineishvili and co-written by Lasha Bugadze. [1] It was screened in the Panorama section at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival. [2]

Contents

Hostages is based on a true story about a group of Soviet Georgia youngsters who try to escape the Soviet Union by hijacking a plane in 1983. [3]

Plot

During the early 1980s in Georgia, just a few years before the collapse of the Soviet Union, a group of young people from respected Georgian families were looking to escape the Soviet Union. The Beatles's music, jeans, American cigarettes, position in society, guaranteed future. They seemed to have everything except one thing — freedom. Unfortunately, The price of their freedom was their own demise. A true story based on the events of 1983, when six guys and one girl tried to hijack a plane in order to escape from the USSR.

Cast

Production

The film is a Georgian-Russian co-production and the producing companies are NEBO Films and 20 Steps Productions. The film's script won a co-production competition which was held by the Georgian National Film Center.

London-based sales agent WestEnd Films acquired world rights to Rezo Gigineishvili's drama film after its premiere in the Panorama strand of the 2017 Berlin Film Festival.

Reception

In 2017, US industry trade publication Variety said of Hostages, "Georgia has its first European shooting star with Irakli Kvirikadze." [4]

As of 2024, Hostages has an approval rating of 90% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, from 10 critic reviews. [5]

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References

  1. Hostages, 2017, WestEnd Films, retrieved 2 December 2024
  2. "Panorama 2017 Programme Complete". Berlinale. 25 January 2017. Retrieved 26 January 2017.
  3. "Four in Soviet Doomed In Georgian Hijacking". The New York Times. 16 August 1984. Retrieved 7 February 2017.
  4. European Film Promotion Names Berlinale-Bound Shooting Stars, Variety, 18 December 2017, retrieved 2 December 2024
  5. Hostages 2017 - Rotten Tomatoes, Rotten Tomatoes, retrieved 2 December 2024