Am Rande der Welt

"Am Rande der Welt was filmed in 1991, the year of independence, and 1992, the year of the war. One year between life as it was then and life as it is now, between rejoicing and destruction. The civil war in Georgia destroyed the utopia of freedom and left behind a battle field, both in the country itself and in the minds of Georgians. In Tiflis I met the same people and went to the same places as in the year before. Nothing and nobody was the same. The war in the Caucasus has become a reflection of the tragedy in the Balkans, where I was born. The same killings, triggering the same pain, the same madness, never ceasing. The film is not a political analysis; it conjures up the life that no longer exists. 'Politics is only the very edge of people. The centre, the visible centre of the people in the film is their faces, their voices, their tears…'. The film shows the desperation and helplessness prevailing in Georgia as a yardstick against which to measure the desperation and helplessness of the whole world." (Goran Rebic)

Director and screenplay: Goran Rebic.
Director of photography: Jerzy Palacz.
Montaggio e suono: Frank Soiron.
Music: Tako Charkviani, Ludmila Makarova.
Cast: Merab Ninidze, Tako Charkviani, Levan Sordanishvili.
Director of Production: Erich Lackner.
Production company: Lotus Film Gesellschaft m.b.H., Hietzinger Kai 169, A-1130 Wien, Austria, tel. +43-222-8762642, fax +43-222-8762645.
Foreign sales agent: Tele M TV Programm GMBH, Maierhofstr. 21 A, A-5202 Neumarkt, tel. +43-6216-4579, fax +43-6216-45799.