Street Days
Drama
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2010
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A middle-aged, unemployed heroin-addict, Checkie, loiters on the Tbilisi street outside his son’s school, where he himself was once a promising student. His wife, meanwhile, struggles to pay the tuition and understand her husband’s lack of interest in the family’s survival—even as the bank repossesses their furniture. But when a group of policemen blackmails Checkie into entrapping the son of his wealthy friend, husband and wife are unified by the uncertainty of their deepening moral dilemma, and a series of worsening foul-ups, in Levan Koguashvili’s lightly humorous yet realistic drama about the fate of a generation left behind in Georgia’s post-Soviet era.
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Rated:
Not Rated
Runtime:
89 min
Release date:
20 Jan 2010
Country:
GE
Languages:
English, Georgian
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
1 win & 1 nomination
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
Once the story kicks into gear it isn't characterized by the dread, paranoia and ruthless violence we've come to expect in dramas from the former Soviet bloc.
– Mike Hale,
New York Times,
20 Jan 2011