Aleksandr Rekhviashvili

Pirosmani

Giorgi Shengelaia

Avtandil Varazi, Dodo Abashidze

This Soviet film is a biography of the Georgian primitive artist Nikoloz Pirosmanishvili (1862–1918), better known as Pirosmani, who died of starvation and sold his paintings to bars and restaurants for food and drink. The film experiments with color control techniques based on the painter’s style.