"Hello, ma'am, do you have any vacancies?" - a voice is heard from behind the shot, still in the background of the black screen and credits - this is how the director Keko Chelidze begins to introduce the main character of her film, “Dead Souls' Vacation” (2020) to the audience. Somewhere in the fourth minute, the music starts, and the hero himself is clearly visible - a small, thin man standing at the crossroads, holding a big guitar, to which the sounding melody belongs. He introduces himself like this: "I'm Levan, Svanidze, a musician, 44 years old, I live with my mother, which should not be surprising, somewhere at the end of the Didi Dighomi district, and I'm trying…well, to make something happen..."

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Lana Gogoberidze has had a prominent place in Georgian cinema for more than 60 years. From the very beginning of her work, in the first feature film, "Under One Sky" (1961), her interest in the fate of women, their problems, which is inherent in all her work, was evident. But the reflection of this topic concentrates on the fateful and dramatic date of the totalitarian country – the year 1937, which destroyed the largest part of the outstanding, thinking, creative people of the country and their family members. The director focused on the tragic events of her childhood forever imprinted in her memory and the resulting emotions. As a result of studying the existing available and objective documentation, she, at the age of 93, made a documentary film, "Mother and Daughter or the Night is Never Complete."

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