A Day Longer Than Night

A Day Longer Than Night

1983 · 138 min · ★ 6.0 · Drama, Romance, Music

This somber story of love lost forever is set against the backdrop of the changes that Communism brought to the state of Georgia in the former USSR after the 1917 Revolution. Eva and Archil are deeply in love and they pledge to be with each other always. After they marry, Archil dies suddenly and Eva is left alone and childless. Along comes the ruthless Spiridon who romances Eva and marries her - though his cold and cruel spirit break Eva's naturally buoyant self, until she sullenly eats alone, and avoids intimacy with her husband as much as possible. They adopt a daughter, who does not take sides between her glum mother and silent father. When the Communist cadres enter their village to promote the ideals of the October revolution, Eva starts to warm to her husband a little because he joins in that movement. Then her husband commits the fatal error of revealing a previous crime - an error that will later cause their grown daughter to question her parents' strange behavior.

Directed by Lana Goghoberidze · Written by Zaira Arsenishvili

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Darejan Kharshiladze Eva v Molodosti
Tamar Skhirtladze Eva v starosti
Guram Pirtskhalava Spiridon
Irakli Khizanishvili Archil
Guram Palavandishvili Georgly
Levan Pilpani Matsyia - Otets Evy
Akaki Khidasheli Mnate
Guranda Gabunia Daredzhan - Doch Spiridonova
Sofiko Arsenishvili malenkaya Daredzhan
Nika Khazaradze malenkly Georgly
Gigola Talakvadze Mito
Natia Gogochuri Svyatosha

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