Making its exclusive North American premiere, The Antique, Georgia’s Official Oscar Submission, makes its way to Film Movement Plus on August 29.
The film’s synopsis reads:
“A bittersweet, darkly whimsical tale set during the 2006 mass deportations of Georgians from Russia. Lado, a young Georgian smuggler trafficking antique furniture across borders, dreams of getting rich quick but his girlfriend Medea is done waiting. She buys a dirt-cheap apartment in St. Petersburg’s historic center, fully aware it comes with a peculiar catch: the flat’s eccentric elderly resident, Vadim Vadimich, isn’t going anywhere. As Lado is swept up in a government crackdown and forcibly deported, Medea finds herself hiding from police in a wardrobe of the very warehouse they once relied on. Left behind, she begins an unlikely, uneasy cohabitation with Vadim, navigating a strange limbo of loss, resilience, and bureaucratic absurdity.
Written and directed by Rusudan Glurjidze, the real-life, unlawful deportations occurring in Georgia deeply affected the filmmaker and inspired the film.
The Antique stars Sergey Dreyden, Salome Demuria, Vladimir Daushvili, and Vladimir Vdovichenkov.
