The four day film fiesta will be screening six classic films by various renowned Russian directors. A statement issued by RCSC mentions that the festival has been organized to celebrate the 65th anniversary of the Victory of the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) and the 85th anniversary of the ROSSOTRUDNICHESTVO. [break]
It aims to give a taste of Russian cinema to Kathmanduits and develop people to people relations between Russian and Nepal. Here’s the synopsis of today’s film.
FATHER OF A SOLDIER (1964)
Show time: 5:00 pm
Director: Rezo Chkheidze
Cast: Sergo Zaqariadze, Vladimir Privaltsev and Aleksandr Nazarov
Duration: 92 minutes
Genre: War drama
Synopsis: Georgian kolkhoz farmer Georgy Makharashvili goes to visit his wounded son. When he arrives his son is not at hospital, so he sets off looking for him. Having witnessed military action, the old man manages to convince everybody and is allowed to fight at the front. During one of the battles the father meets his son. But their meeting is a short one, the son is killed by a shell fragment.
Gurukul beckons
Title of the play: The Metamorphosis
Director: Kamaluddin Nilu
Group: Centre for Asian Theatre, Bangladesh
Time/Venue: 5:00 pm, Rimal Theatre
The Metamorphosis marks the beginning of a series of thinking, speaking, and suffering animals, of learned dogs and voracious jackals, psychotic moles, worldly-wise apes, and vainglorious mice.
The roots of this topic obviously reach down to a great psychological depth. At the same time, the topic is so adaptable, varied and ambiguous that it allows an infinite number of narrative nuances.
The whole adaptation addresses two fundamentally distinct issues- Kafka’s fading self-esteem (“I”) and his humiliation by his family (“Gregor”) employing one image for both. Director Nilu likes to describe his work as follows, “My production is a complete destruction of our own existence in the present world.”
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