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And Then There Was Light

And Then There Was Light

Original title
Et la Lumière Fut
Year
1989
Gender
Comedy , Drama
Director
Otar Iosseliani
Country
France , Germany , Italy
Details
105 minutes / colored / sound

Events in an idyllic African village are shown in detail in the period just before logging trucks come in and cut down the forest around the villagers, forcing them to move into the wretched shantytowns that surround major cities throughout the undeveloped world. Despite the familiar premise, this surprisingly unsentimental film by Georgian director Otar Ioselliani has several things going for it, beginning with the cinematography and including the natural and unaffected (non-professional) performances of the villagers.

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