The film "Hostages", reviews of which are collected in this article, is a film directed by Rezo Gigineishvili. This is a Russian-Georgian project.
Plot of the film
Reviews on the film "Hostages" allow you to make a full impression of 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 a few years before the collapse of the Soviet Union in Soviet Georgia.
In the conditions of the closed system that reigned in the USSR, these young people are trying to find themselves. Western culture has a strong influence on them. They listen to the Beatles, wear jeans, 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. Her price is too high.
In the film “Hostages” (2017), viewers witness the real story that happened in 1983. Then six guys together with one girl decided to hijack a plane in order to escape from the USSR forever. 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 picture "Hostages". The film's genre of critics was identified as a biographical dramatic thriller.
The story that formed the basis
The real hijacking of the aircraft, which was transferred to the screen by the creators of the film "Hostages" (2017), took place on November 18, 1983. In history, this event remained as a capture and attempt to hijack a Tu-134.
As the investigation later found out, the Georgian priest Teymuraz Chikhladze was the ideological inspirer of the attack. It was he who put into the minds of a group of young people from representatives of the golden youth who attended his church the idea of ​​fleeing to the West. They had a plan according to which Chikhladze himself had to carry weapons and grenades into the plane under a robe. 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, the priest was not taken with them on the day of the hijacking.
The terrorist group included 7 people. Joseph Tsereteli became their leader. Most of those who decided on this act were the children of high-ranking officials and leaders, lived in abundance. Some of them have even been abroad on tourist visas and could theoretically emigrate in this way. But criminals were driven 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 managed to watch the educational film Nabat, dedicated to the attempts of conditional terrorists to seize an airplane. First of all, it was intended for employees of Aeroflot, so it went on a wide rental only in the 90s.
Terrorists without inspection carried weapons on board the aircraft, taking advantage of an acquaintance 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 capture
Terrorists arrived at Tbilisi airport under the guise of newlyweds and guests who are leaving for Batumi.
Together with them, there were 57 passengers and 7 crew members on board the aircraft. Attackers decided to hijack the plane when it begins to decline for landing in Batumi. This point was as close to the Turkish border as possible. But they did not know that due to bad weather conditions the crew was ordered to return to Tbilisi.
The plane was captured at 16:13. They took the stewardess hostage, opened fire on those who looked like representatives 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 a shootout, the flight engineer Chedia was killed and the inspector Sharbatyan was seriously injured. In response, the navigator Gasoyan managed to kill one terrorist and seriously injure another. The ship's commander injured the Iverieli brothers.
The pilot began abrupt maneuvers in the air to knock down criminals. Using the hitch, the crew was able to close in the cockpit behind an armored door. Desperate terrorists opened fire on passengers, killing another man and injuring five.
At 17:20 the plane landed in Tbilisi. He was immediately cordoned off by the military. During the 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 Special Forces, which specially flew to Tbilisi, launched an 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.
During the investigation, under unclear circumstances, the leader of the terrorists, Joseph Tsereteli, died in the detention center. 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 main.
In 2012, in the film almanac "Love with an Accent," she played the role of Lesia in the novel "Sochi - Batumi", in 2014, together with Severia Yanushauskaite, she played the main role in the tragicomedy Anna Melikyan "Star". She got the image of a young actress who suddenly manages to make friends with a real socialite.
In 2017, she took part in another project of Anna Melikyan - the comedy melodrama "About love. Only for adults" and the family comedy of Natalia Merkulova "Yana + Yanko".
Now simultaneously involved in several projects. One of them is the youth comedy of Anna Melikyan “Quartet”, in which she again plays the main role.
Irakli Kvirikadze
In the picture "Hostages" Irakli Kvirikadze performs one of the main roles - Niki.
Kvirikidze is not only an actor. This is a director, screenwriter and producer, popular in Russia and Georgia. He made his first full-length film in 1978. It was a grotesque tragicomedy "Anara Town". In 1990, he shot the famous tragicomedy "Comrade Stalin's Journey to Africa" ​​about how the Soviet leader was trying to be replaced by a double. In 2009, together with Elena Zhigaeva, he released the comedy "The Best Grandmother." Now working on a military drama "Do not wait for me, I will not return."
In cinema, before that he appeared mainly in episodes. For example, he played a bus passenger in the drama of Nan Dzhordzhardze "Summer, or 27 stolen kisses", a gatekeeper, similar to the apostle Peter, in the biographical melodrama of Eldar Ryazanov "Andersen. Life without love."
Debutants
In the film "Hostages", the actor who played the role of Koki is Giga Datiashvili. Interestingly, this work became his actual debut. In the film "Hostages", Giga Datiashvili played his first prominent role in cinema.
The same can be said about Giorgi Khurtsilava and Giorgi Grdzelidze.
Keti Kalatozishvili
Many other actors of the film "Hostages" before that appeared in one or more films, but could become famous only after this tape. This fully applies to Keti Kalatozishvili.
In the film "Hostages", reviews of which are collected in this article, she played the role of Tamuna. Before working with the director Rezo Gigineishvili, she starred in the mystical biographical series "Dzhuna" - about the author of detective novels, and in the past investigator Andrei Petrova, who received an attractive offer to write a biography of the mysterious Dzhuna, a Soviet healer and astrologer, whom they turned to for help. many stars, and rumored even politicians and prominent party workers.
In this series, Keti Kalatozishvili played Theresa.
Georgy Tabidze
In the film "Hostages," actor George Tabidze played Oto.
Prior to this, only narrow specialists could recall him. For example, according to the Georgian crime thriller George Maskharashvili "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 “Blind dates” by Levan Koguashvili 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 is leaving the prison the other day.
This spouse named Tengo was played by actor Vakhtang Chachanidze.
Merab Ninidze
The role of Levan, Nika's father, was played by Merab Ninidze. This is a famous Georgian actor who during the perestroika worked at the Tbilisi Drama Theater named after Rustaveli, and in 1991 he left for the UK and then for Austria. He still works there.
He made his film debut in 1984 in the psychological drama Tengiz Abuladze "Repentance." This film is about how, after the funeral of the mayor in a certain city, the next morning, his body is found near the rich house of his son. And so it is repeated over and over again. To understand this situation, a patrol is left near the grave after the next burial. Among those who are ambushed, the grandson of the deceased Tornike, who is precisely played by Merab Ninidze.
Despite the fact that Ninidze lives abroad, he periodically starred in Russian directors. For example, he played the doctor Daniil Pokrovsky in the drama Alexei German Jr. "Paper Soldier", Boris in the drama Elena Khazanova's "Petrushka Syndrome", appeared in the episode in yet another tape by 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 the Magikyan."
His debut on the big screen turned out to be noisy and successful. In 2006, he released the comedy melodrama Heat. This is a picture about four friends who spend their summers in the Russian capital. Among them are a sailor who has just returned from military service, a rich major, a failed actor and a hip-hop star. The film was played by Alexey Chadov, Arthur Smolyaninov, Konstantin Kryukov and Timati.
In 2010, together with Alisa Khmelnitskaya Gigineishvili removes the 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 "Without Borders" was released (the working title of the film was "Love with an Accent and Without"). This time they were four independent novels. It all started with the fact that the forward of the Russian football team was stuck at the airport due to the fault of a customs officer who turned out to be a fan of his team. The airport employee was very annoyed that he did not score a penalty.
In another short story, a failed Armenian musician suddenly finds out that he has an adult son who will fly to Yerevan very soon with his girlfriend. Another story is dedicated to a Georgian cemetery employee who falls in love with a woman who regularly looks after her husband’s grave. The last novella is about the son of a Moscow oligarch who argues with a friend that he will be able to seduce the first girl she met without ever mentioning that he is rich.
Movie Reviews
Reviews of the film "Hostages" came in contradictory. Many liked the way life in the Soviet Union was shown. This is done non-trivially and interestingly, without the sugary nostalgia that modern Russian cinema sins. In addition, viewers appreciated the fascinating plot and psychologism of the picture.
Those who did not like the film, in the reviews noted a weak directorial and cameraman work, as well as many inconsistencies with real historical events.