Movies like The Entreaty
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The Entreaty (1967)
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Original name: ვედრება
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Based on the poems “Aluda Ketelauri” and “The Guest and the Host” by the classic of Georgian literature Vazha Pshavela This film opens Tengiz Abuladze’s trilogy (“The Plea”, “The Wishing Tree”, “Repentance”), which discusses the subject of common human values using original national material. The death of heroes, the knights of truth and good, leads the Poet to the conclusion that the evil is invincible. Exhausted by struggle and privations, the Poet lays down his arms. He is visited then by all of his favorite heroes. They put out candles by dipping them into a beer cup – a ritual Khevsuri gesture meaning renunciation. And only after seeing what misfortune and harm the rejection of fighting the evil results in, the Poet takes up arms again.
Style:
spiritual, crying, avant garde
Plot:
spirituality, fight, mountain, death, murder, cemetery, exile, community, sacrifice, tradition, guest, respect, grave, enemy, meeting, fratricide, host, small community, rural setting, countryside, cut, crying woman, severed arm, cut arm
Place:
soviet union, caucasus, georgia, chechnya, russia
Keyword:
avant-garde, georgia (former ussr)
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out spiritual, contemplative, serious and realistic films with plots about soviet, spirituality, family relations, death, murder, love and underground mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Entreaty: Ashik Kerib (1988), The Wishing Tree (1976), Pastorale (1975), Repentance (1984), The Second Circle (1990). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Wandering minstrel Ashik Kerib falls in love with a rich merchant's daughter, but is spurned by her father and forced to roam the world for a thousand and one nights - but not before he's got the daughter to promise not to marry till his ...
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
This poetic parable is part of Tenghiz Abuladze’s cinematic triptych: “The Supplication” – “The Wishing Tree” – “Repentance”. The place is Georgia at the beginning of the 20th century. That’s how director Tenghiz Abuladze ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In the mountain village comes a group of young musicians in Tbilisi. Here they are going to relax and rehearse. Sad story about the final rupture occurred, the peasants do not sing beautiful old songs, the musicians play music incomprehensible to ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
spiritual, avant garde
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The film is Sokurov's feature film debut and is based on the novel The River Potudan by Andrei Platonov. It's a story about the lives of people in the Russian countryside in the beginning of the 20th century. The film was completed in 1979 ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
In the old days it was called hypochrondria, or black melancholia. Now, apparently, it's termed the Asthenic Syndrome. Whatever it is, Nikolai, a teacher of epicly indifferent pupils, has got it, and it's not much fun.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, Germany
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
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Style:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: Soviet Union
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Story:
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Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Soviet Union
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Story:
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Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: Soviet Union
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Story:
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Country: Soviet Union
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Story:
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