The President
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Actors:
- Misha Gomiashvili
- Dachi Orvelashvili
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Genre:
- Dramatic Comedy
- Duration: 118 minutes
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Language:
- Georgian
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Nationalities:
- Georgia
- France
- UK
- Germany
- Prize / Festival: Venice International Film Festival 2014 - Orizzonti section
- Sound: 5.1
- Script: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
- Producers: Mike Downey, Sam Taylor, Maysam Makhmalbaf, Vladimer Katcharava, Mathieu Robinet, Rudolph Herzog, David Grumbach, Henning Bruemmer, Patrick Fischer, Richard Kondal
- Production Companies: 20 steps productions, Brummer & Herzog Filmproduktion
- Status: Completed
The President and his family rule their land with an iron fist, enjoying lives of luxury and leisure at the expense of their population's misery. When a coup d'état overthrows his brutal rule and the rest of his family flees the country by plane, The President is suddenly left to care for his young grandson and forced to escape. Now the country’s most wanted fugitive with a bounty on his head, The President begins a perilous journey with the boy, criss-crossing the country to reach the sea where a ship waits to bring them to safety. Posing as street musicians and traveling together with the people who suffered for years under the dictatorship, the fallen President and the innocent child will be exposed first hand to the hardships that inspired unanimous hatred for the regime.