Film
And Then We Danced
- Director
- Levan Atkin
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 113 mins
A gay coming-of-age romance from Tblisi (with which Bristol is twinned – not a lot of people seem to know that), Levan Akin‘s third film boasts a terrific performance by young Levan Gelbakhiani as a dance student who falls for hunky class newcomer Bachi Valishvili.
This carries serious risks in deeply conservative Georgia. It’s a fairly predictable yarn and rather tame by our standards, but has become notorious for the way in which the theme spilled offscreen back home. Ultra-nationalists and pro-Russian campaigners took to the streets bent on preventing screenings, asserting that the film “is against Georgian and Christian traditions and values and popularises the sin of sodomy”. They failed, but did succeed in inspiring Georgia Today‘s memorable headline: And Then the Homophobes Protested.
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