A Chef in Love

Shekvarebuli kulinaris ataserti retsepti

Georgia, France, Ukraine, Belgium

1996

100 Min

Color

Georgian, Russian, French, English

Currently 2.8/5 Stars.
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EXEC Temur Babluani, Thomas Bauermeister

SCR Irakli Kvirikadze, André Graill

CAST Pierre Richard, Micheline Presle, Nino Kirtadze, Jean-Yves Gautier, Temuri Quamkhadze, Ramaz Chkhikvadze, Kakhi Kavsadze

ED Guili Grigoriani, Vessela Martschewski

The story of Pascal Ichak, a larger-than-life French traveller, bon vivant, and chef, who falls in love with Georgia and a Georgian princess in the early 1920s. All is well until the arrival of the Red Army of the Caucasus, as the Soviet revolution that has swept Russian comes to Georgia. Told as a flashback from the present, as a French-Georgian man whose mother was Pascal’s lover translates his memoirs for Pascal’s niece. –IMDb

Director

Nana Dzhordzhadze

Nana Jorjadze (also spelled Djordjadze or Dzhordzhadze; Georgian: ნანა ჯორჯაძე; born August 24, 1948) is a Georgian film director, scriptwriter and actress.

Jorjadze was born in Tbilisi, and graduated first from a local musical school (1966), and then from the architectural department at the Tbilisi State Academy of Fine Arts (1972). Having worked as an architect in the years 1968-74, she enrolled in the Tbilisi State Theatre Institute which she completed in 1980. She debuted as an actress with the film Some Interviews on Personal Matters in 1977; and as a director with A Journey to Sopot in 1979. Her 1987 work Robinsonada or My English Grandfather was a breakthrough which won her the Caméra d’Or at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival, and both critical and popular acclaim. She moved to France early in the 1990s and directed several films including A Chef in Love (1996) which became the first, and so far the only, Georgian film to be nominated for the Academy Award.

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