The film "Hostages", reviews of which are collected in this article, a film directed by Rezo Gigineishvili. This is a Russian-Georgian project.
The plot of the movie
Reviews on the film "Hostages" allow you to makefull impression about this tape. The main characters are the local golden youth, all of them are members of respected Georgian families. The events in the film "Hostages", the plot of which is given in this article, unfold several years before the collapse of the Soviet Union on the territory of Soviet Georgia.
In a closed system that reigned inUSSR, these young people are trying to find themselves. Western culture has a strong influence on them. They listen to Beatles songs, wear jeans, and exchange American cigarettes. At the same time, thanks to influential parents, they believe that they are guaranteed a successful future, a high position in society.
But it turns out that they do not have everything. These young people are sorely lacking in freedom. Its price is too high.
In the film "Hostages" (2017), viewers becomewitness the true story that happened in 1983. Then six guys together with one girl decided to hijack a plane in order to permanently escape from the USSR. The tape "Hostages", the release date of which was scheduled for September 21, was at the box office for five weeks. During this time she managed to collect almost 11 million rubles.
Many viewers were attracted by the film "Hostages". The film genre critics have identified as biographical dramatic thriller.
The story that formed the basis
The real hijacking of the aircraft, which the creators of the film Hostages (2017) took to the screen, took place on November 18, 1983. In the history of this event remains as a seizure and attempt to steal a Tu-134.
Как позже выяснило следствие, идейным the mastermind of the terrorist attack was the Georgian priest Teimuraz Chikhladze. It was he who put into the minds of a group of young people from representatives of golden youth who attended his church, the idea of fleeing to the West. They had a plan, according to which Chikhladze himself was to carry weapons and grenades into the plane under a cassock. But suddenly he had a chance to go abroad on a religious line, so he began to constantly postpone the date of capture. As a result, they did not take the priest on the day of the hijacking.
The composition of the terrorist group included 7 people.Their leader was Joseph Tsereteli. Most of those who decided on this act were the children of high-ranking officials and managers, lived in prosperity. Some of them have even been abroad on tourist visas and could theoretically emigrate this way. But the criminals were motivated by the desire not only to leave the USSR, but also to become famous, so that they would be met in the West as ideological fighters against the Soviet regime.
At the film studio "Georgia-film" they succeededWatch the training film "Nabat", dedicated to the attempts of conditional terrorists to seize the plane. First of all, it was intended for Aeroflot employees, therefore, it was released only in the 90s.
Terrorists without inspection carried weapons on boardaircraft, taking advantage of familiarity with the duty of the international airport sector. They had two TT pistols, two guns, two hand grenades, which turned out to be training.
Aircraft grip
The terrorists arrived at Tbilisi airport under the guise of newlyweds and guests who go to Batumi.
Together with them on board were 57passengers and 7 crew members. The attackers decided to seize the aircraft when it begins to descend for landing in Batumi. This point was as close as possible to the Turkish border. But they did not know that due to bad weather conditions the crew was ordered to return to Tbilisi.
The plane was hijacked at 16:13.They took the hostess as a hostess, opened fire on those who looked like members of the special services. Immediately one person was killed, two seriously injured. The hijackers broke into the cockpit and demanded to fly to Turkey.
The crew resisted.In the shootout, flight engineer Chedia was killed, and the testing Sharbatyan was seriously injured. Backfire, the navigator Gasoyan managed to kill one terrorist and another hard to injure. The captain wounded the Iveriely brothers.
Пилот начал резкие маневры в воздухе, чтобы сбить with the legs of criminals. Using the hitch, the crew was able to close in the cockpit behind the armored door. Desperate terrorists opened fire on the passengers, killing another person and injuring five.
At 17:20 the aircraft landed in Tbilisi. He was immediately cordoned off by the military. During negotiations, the hijackers demanded refueling and departure to Turkey. Otherwise, they threatened to blow up the plane.
At 06:55 on November 19, the Alpha group’s sneaksnaz, specially flown to Tbilisi, began the assault. The operation lasted 8 minutes, no one was hurt.
As a result, 7 people were killed, two of whom turned out to be terrorists. Another 10 people were injured.
In the course of the investigation in unclear circumstancesin the isolation ward the leader of the terrorists Joseph Tsereteli died. Four more participants in the assault were sentenced to death. On October 3, 1984, the sentence was carried out.
The only girl Tinatin Petviashvili received 14 years in prison. She was amnestied in 1991. Now lives in Cyprus.
Tinatin Dalakishvili
In the film "Hostages" Tinatin Dalakishvili played one of the main characters Anna. In the movie she has very few roles, but almost all of them are major.
In 2012 in the film almanac "Love with an accent"she performed the role of Lesya in the novel "Sochi - Batumi", in 2014, together with Severiya Yanushauskayte, played a major role in the tragicomedy of Anna Melikyan "The Star". She got the image of a young actress who unexpectedly manages to make friends with a real social lioness.
In 2017, she took part in another project by Anna Melikyan - the comedy melodrama “About love. Only for adults”, and Natalya Merkulova’s family comedy “Yana + Yanko”.
Now simultaneously involved in several projects. One of them is the Anna Quartet youth comedy "Quartet", in which she again plays the main role.
Irakli Kvirikadze
In the film "Hostages" Irakli Kvirikadze plays one of the main roles - Nicky.
Kvirikidze is not only an actor.This is a popular director in Russia and Georgia, screenwriter and producer. He made his first feature film back in 1978. It was a grotesque tragicomedy "Town of Anara". In 1990, he shot the famous tragicomedy “Journey of Comrade Stalin to Africa” about how the Soviet leader was tried to be replaced with a double. In 2009, together with Elena Zhigayeva, he released the comedy "The Best Grandmother". Now working on the military drama "Do not wait for me, I will not return."
В кино до этого появлялся преимущественно в episodes. For example, he played a bus passenger in the drama Nana Jorjadze "Summer, or 27 Stolen Kisses," a gatekeeper resembling the Apostle Peter, in Eldar Ryazanov's biographical melodrama Andersen. A Life Without Love.
Debutants
В фильме "Заложники" актер, исполнивший роль Koki, - Giga Datiashvili. Interestingly, this work was his actual debut. In the film "Hostages" Giga Datiashvili played his first prominent role in cinema.
The same can be said about Giorgi Khurtsilavu and Giorgi Grdzelidze.
Keti Kalatozishvili
Many other actors of the film "Hostages" previously appeared in one or more films, but could only become famous after this tape. This fully applies to Katie Kalatozishvili.
In the film "Hostages", reviews of which are collected inthis article, she performed the role of Tamuna. Before working with the director Rezo Gigineishvili, she starred in the mystical biographical series "Jun" - about the author of detective novels, and last investigator Andrew Petrov, who receives a tempting offer to write a biography of the mysterious Junea, a Soviet healer and astrologer, to whom she turned for help many stars, and even rumored politicians and prominent party workers.
In this series, Katie Kalatozishvili played Teresa.
George Tabidze
In the film "Hostages" actor George Tabidze played Oto.
Prior to that, only narrow specialists could recall it. For example, on the Georgian criminal thriller Georgy Maskharashvili "The Watchmaker".
Vakhtang Chachanidze
Vakhtang Chachanidze in this tape played the role of Irakli.
At home, he is better known as an actor of the Central Children's Theater named after Dumbadze.
In the movie, this is his second significant role.Prior to that, he could only be seen in the Ukrainian-Georgian comedy Levan Koguashvili's “Blind Dates” about a 40-year-old history teacher from Tbilisi, who still cannot find his other half. And when he finally falls in love, it turns out that the girl is married and her husband goes out of prison the other day.
This spouse named Tengo was played by actor Vakhtang Chachanidze.
Merab Ninidze
Роль Левана, отца Ники, исполнил Мераб Нинидзе.This is a famous Georgian actor who worked at the Rustaveli Drama Theater in Tbilisi during perestroika, and in 1991 he left for Great Britain, and then for Austria. There he still works.
In the cinema he debuted in 1984 inTengiz Abuladze's psychological drama "Repentance". This is a film about how, after the funeral of the mayor in a certain city, in the morning, his body is found near the rich house of his son. And so it repeats time after time. To understand this situation, a patrol is left near the grave after the next burial. Among those who are ambushed is the grandson of the deceased Tornike, who is played by Merab Ninidze.
Despite the fact that Ninidze lives abroad, heperiodically removed from Russian directors. For example, he played the doctor Daniil Pokrovsky in the drama Alexei German Jr. "The Paper Soldier", Boris in the drama Elena Khazanova "Petrushka Syndrome", appeared in an episode in yet another tape of Alexei German Jr. "Under electric clouds."
Rezo Gigineishvili
The director of the film "Hostages" was Rezo Gigineishvili. This is his fifth full-length tape. He also shot two series - "9 months" and "The Last of Magikyan."
Его дебют на большом экране получился шумным и successful. In 2006, he released the comedy melodrama "Heat". This is a picture of four friends who spend the summer in the Russian capital. Among them is a sailor who has just returned from military service, a rich major, a failed actor and a hip-hop star. Alexey Chadov, Arthur Smolyaninov, Konstantin Kryukov and Timati played in the film.
In 2010, together with Alice KhmelnitskyGigineishvili shoots melodramatic comedy "Without Men". And in 2012 he released the adventure film-almanac "Love with an accent". It consists of five stories that take place in Tbilisi.
In 2014, the continuation of this film almanac was released."Without Borders" (the working title of the film was "Love with and without accent"). This time it was four separate stories. It all started with the fact that the striker of the Russian national football team was stuck at the airport because of a customs officer who turned out to be a fan of his team. The airport employee was greatly annoyed that he did not score a penalty.
In another short story a failed Armenian musicianhe suddenly finds out that he has an adult son, who will soon arrive with his girlfriend in Yerevan. Another story is dedicated to an employee of a Georgian cemetery who falls in love without a memory with a woman who regularly cares for her husband's grave. The last story about the son of a Moscow oligarch, who argues with a friend that he can seduce the first girl he has met, without ever mentioning that he is rich.
Reviews of the movie
Отзывы о фильме "Заложники" поступили contradictory. Many liked the way life was shown in the Soviet Union. This is done in a non-trivial and interesting way, without the sugary nostalgia with which modern Russian cinema sins. In addition, viewers appreciated the fascinating story and psychologism of the picture.
Those who did not like the film, in a review noted the poor directorial and cinematography, as well as many inconsistencies with real historical events.
