Product Details

• Actors: Amiran Amiranashvili, Davit Gogibedashvili, Giorgi Tsintsadze, Nino Ordjonikidze, Aleqsi Jakeli
• Directors: Otar Iosseliani
• Writers: Otar Iosseliani
• Producers: Armen Medvedev, Martine Marignac, Maurice Tinchant, Theres Scherer, Valerio De Paolis
• Format: Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: French, Georgian
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Facets
• DVD Release Date: December 16, 2003
• Run Time: 129 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000V48EI
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #303,669 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Brigands - Chapter VII" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

"A must-see!" - CHICAGO READER ** GRAND JURY PRIZE, VENICE FILM FESTIVAL ** "Four stars!" - CHICAGO TRIBUNE - The NEW YORK TIMES called it "wise, sad, chilling and funny" and the CHICAGO READER said BRIGANDS, CHAPTER VII is "a witty, despairing art movie." Vano, the main character, is the king of a country so beautiful and so rich that all the neighboring countries are jealous. But he is soon beset by treachery, and even his wife deceives him. Jumping through time, director Otar Iosseliani also situates Vano in the heyday of Communism, and in today’s Paris, where wealthy arms dealers live it up with beautiful women.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting Movie, Horrible Quality..., October 20, 2005

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Moviefanatic (Chicago, Il) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Brigands - Chapter VII (DVD)

Otar Iosseliani is a fascinationg movie director. His earlier movies (made in Georgia) are simply amazing. Beatifully filmed in a mixture of a new wave and neo-realizm styles, unique and touching. Brigands - Chapter VII was filmed after Iosseliani left Georgia from France. It is a work of a mature master who agains draws his inspiration from his beloved Georgia. The only complaint I have is to the quality of the DVD recording. It looks as if the image was transferred from a roor VHS copy. What a shame! Iosseliani deserves better! Just look at how lovingly his earlier works (four movies) have been presented on DVD in both France and the US.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Man is wolf to man, April 26, 2007

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Andres C. Salama (Buenos Aires, Argentina) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Brigands - Chapter VII (DVD)

One of director Otar Iosseliani's stronger films. The movie takes place during several periods of time in his native country of Georgia: in the Middle Ages, in the early 1900s, during the Stalinist period (the bulk of the movie) and in the chaos of the early 1990s. The same actors often play different characters at the different periods of time (for example, the guy playing the medieval king also plays a Stalinist henchman and a contemporary smuggler). The movie works through vignettes full of deadpan humor, and a common thread of all the stories seems to be the absurdity of life, the arrogance of power and man's inhumanity to man. Iosseliani even plays a couple of roles here, as a Stalinist torturer, and as a present day bumbling projectionist, in one of the film's most elaborate gags. Overall, a great movie, with Iosseliani's caustic humor telling us, as the old Latin saying, that man is a wolf to man.