Cupid at the Kremlin Wall
Aka MorchiladzeWhen a woman travels to the heart of the empire to demand answers from Stalin himself, is it an act of bravery or a tragic comedy written by fate?
What unfolds in the "Mezhdunarodni" carriage en route from Tbilisi to the Kremlin is a story no Soviet filmmaker could ever capture as a comedy. It is, at its heart, a tragedy disguised by the absurd. Told through the witty, "researcher" voice of an Imeretian narrator, Cupid at the Kremlin Wall (კუპიდონი კრემლის კედელთან) recounts the incredible journey of a young Georgian woman traveling directly to Stalin to find her husband, who has vanished without a trace into the void of the system. With a blend of melancholy and sharp humor, Aka Morchiladze vividly reconstructs the terror and surrealism of the era the world now knows simply as the Stalinist regime.
