Mother and Daughter (Lana Gogoberidze) Georgia/France |

Mother and Daughter
Lana Gogoberidze
Georgia/France. 2023. 89 min

It is 1930. A bitterly crying two-years-old child is seeing her mother off on her way to a film shooting. An elderly man turns to the mother and asks her where she was going to and whether it was worth the child’s tears.
The film is an attempt to answer this question.
The woman leaving for film shooting is Nutsa Gogoberidze – the first woman filmmaker in Georgia and one among the first in the Soviet Union.
Two years old child is me — Lana Gogoberidze. Today 95 years old film maker. In the 30s Nutsa shot two films immediately banned by the Soviet censorship. In 1937, during the times of Great Terror, she was arrested and exiled for 10 years.

LANA GOGOBERIDZE

Born in Tbilisi, Georgia, 13 October, 1928.
Her mother Nutsa Gogoberidze was first Georgian woman filmmaker In 1953 Lana Gogoberidze graduated from Tbilisi State University. She achieved a degree in Doctor of Philological Sciences for her dissertation titled ‘Social Nature of Walt Whitman’s Poetry’ in 1954. While serving as a professor of English literature at State university of Georgia she has published ‘Walt Whitman, Monography’ (1954); ‘Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass – Translations,’ ‘Rabindranath Tagor, The Gardener – Translations’ (1956).