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| Toma Chagelishvili |
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Toma Chageishvili began working on the documentary program "Georgia - Modern History" in January 2001 in Rustavi 2 Broadcasting Company. 24 documentaries have been shot since then. Director of the documentaries - Demna Japaridze, journalist - Zaza Jgharkava.
High production documentary films gives the audience in depth look at the most interesting periods of Georgian modern history. Combining dramatic storyline and historical research, and using unique material including secret documents, rare photographs, seldom seen archival and TV footage, the films explore the most remarkable personas and striking events.
The audience witnesses the most interesting and dramatic episodes of Georgian history.
"Assassination of Ilia Chavchavadze", "Georgians in the World War II", "Georgians in Kremlin", "Capital Punishment", "Closed Circle(Tbilisi War)", "Last Days of Zviad Gamsakhurdia's Life", "Abkazian Trap", - this is only a small list of the documentaries produced and broadcasted by Rustavi 2 Broadcasting Company.
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Terrorist |
12.02.05 |
| In 1976 devastating series of terrorism shocked Georgia. Three massive explosions occurred near Government buildings, one of which was the Supreme Court. Intensive investigation process conducted by Security Ministry managed to trace the offenders. The documentary offers detailed information on the case. |
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Achara – Big Games |
18.06.04 |
| Events happened in Achara in 1918-21 years in many ways duplicate the situation in this region in the governing period of Aslan Abashidze. The documentary concerns the history of returning Adjara back into the territory of Georgia. It tells the story of ethnical Georgian Keskin Zade, who with the help of Englishmen and Turks fights against separating of Adjara. The local patriots, who see the future Adjara only in the territory of independent Georgia, oppose him. |
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Georgians in Kremlin |
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| First Secretary of the Georgian Central Committee Kandid Charkviani chronicles Joseph Stalin’s leading of the biggest empire in the world – Soviet Union - epoch from Bolshevism to Stalin’s Socialism. Lavrenty Beria, police chief and the first official of Cheka, fulfilled all his directives. Kandid Charkviani headed Georgian Communist Party from 1932 to 1952 and met with Stalin in different situations: official and unofficial surroundings. The documentary describes meetings with the leader, memories of unknown details of his life, parents, children and friends in the Communist Party. |
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Marxists and nationalism |
01.04.04 |
| How Stalin’s origin did affect his political career? Did Georgia have any privileges due to the fact, that Stalin was a Georgian and Georgians leaded the Kremlin politic? This part of the documentary tells us about Stalin’s conception of the nations’ assimilation. He recollects the plan of Georgian administrative system, peripeteias surrounding adoption of the scheme and regional nationalism of the Leader of the world proletariat. |
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Soviet Metamorphoses |
05.04.04 |
| The film unfolds the way the history of nations was written under the Iron Curtain, how the geography developed faster than the history, establishing of tradition of nations’ expulsion and granting of their territories. What was the Stalin’s idea on integration of Georgian historic territories and return of the captured Georgian territories? |
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Triumph and Paranoia |
11.04.04 |
| This part of the documentary contains expose of Stalin’s gaining absolute dictatorial rule and guiding the state from plough to atomic weapon. Charkviani recollects Stalin’s interest in Georgian classic writer Vazha Pshavela along with his false self-declaring as cybernetics and genetics scientist. He talks on creation of the post-war Soviet monster, based on the jealousy, eavesdropping and espionage. |
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Meeting with past |
20.04.04 |
| Kandid Charkvini tells about the nature of the 'Georgians in Kremlin'. He recollects dinners with Stalin on Kuntsev’s villa, where Lavrenti Beria used to be a tamada. He describes Stalin’s menu and predilection for alcoholic of the members of Politburo. He reviews the last period of Stalin’s life, when years changed soul of the great leader. Ascetic Bolshevik, who even did not come to his mother’s funeral, suddenly decides to visit his native Gori, though he changes his mind and returns to Kremlin. Charkviani recollects days Stalin spent in Likani and Tskaltubo, which turned out to be crucial for him. |
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End of the Epoch |
27.04.04 |
| The last part of the film is dedicated to one of the last acts issued by Stalin regarding bribery and anti-communist grouping in Georgia. This act was followed by the so-called “Megrelians’ case” and end of Charkviani’s career. He was dismissed from his rank and moved to Middle Asia from Georgia, which meant going into exile. The main target of this case exceeded the Georgian opposition party and was aimed at Kremlin, where Stalin was preparing a massive purge of the Communist Party. It was the period when Stalin regarded Beria as his arch-enemy. The plan was not fulfilled – the leader died, though Beria was arrested and executed in three months. |
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Rose Revolution |
02.01.04 |
| November 23, 2003... The opposition ousted president Eduard Shevardnadze. This event will be known in the history of Georgia as Rose Revolution. Find out how the events developed during the revolution first hand. Listen to interviews with the opposition leaders and other political figures who were involved in these events and find out how they evaluate the revolution, that brought crucial changes in the country. The story is supported by unique video material. |
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July 26, 2001 |
26.07.03 |
| On July 26, 2001 Giorgi Sanaya, a famouse journalist from Rustavi 2 Broadcasting Company was assassinated under indefinite circumstances. Why was he murdered and how was this assasination related to the political situation in the country? Find out what versions the investigation worked on and why the court excluded the political assassination version on the initial stage. Many questions still remain unanswered. |
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