P.O.V. No.19 - Heritage: Data on the film and the director

HERITAGE





Arch Khetagouri
Netherlands, 2003, color, 35 mm, 24 min.

Principal production credits
Director
Screenplay
Cinematographer
Editor
Sound design
Production design
Production
Arch Khetagouri
Arch Khetagouri, Laura van Dijk
Maarten van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal
Katarina Türler
Tom Bijnen
Lieke Scholman, Kirsty Holtkamp
Eelke Pollé, Ivo Noorlander

Cast
Man and Father
Child
Mother
Officer
Sergeant
Soldier
Irakli Apakidze
Alexander Apakidze
Dasha Laktionova
Dirk van der Pol
Srdjan Fink
Hans Groenendijk

Prizes
Grand Prize, European Short Film Festival, Maastricht, 2004
Selected as Dutch entry for Student Academy Award, 2004
One of three films nominated for the Tuschinski Award, Netherlands, 2003

Synopsis
A man, roaming through his former parental home, confronts traumatic memories of his childhood during the war. In reliving those memories, he gains a new measure of freedom from them.



Arch Khetagouri
Arch Khetagouri lived in Georgia until war broke out there. He fled to Holland, was admitted to the film academy and made "Heritage" as his graduation film.



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