A trip to Karabakh is a 2005

2005 in film

- Highest-grossing films :Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top-grossing films that were first released in the United States in 2005...

 Georgian film directed by Levan Tutberidze and based on the 1992 book by Aka Morchiladze

Aka Morchiladze

Aka Morchiladze is the pen name of George Akhvlediani , a Georgian writer and literary historian who authored some of the best-selling prose of post-Soviet Georgian literature...

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Plot

A group of teenage boys from Tbilisi

Tbilisi

Tbilisi is the capital and the largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Mt'k'vari River. The name is derived from an early Georgian form T'pilisi and it was officially known as Tiflis until 1936...

 take a trip to Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan , officially the Republic of Azerbaijan is the largest country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia to the west, and Iran to...

 to buy drugs, and end up fighting in the Nagorno-Karabakh War

Nagorno-Karabakh War

The Nagorno-Karabakh War was an armed conflict that took place from February 1988 to May 1994, in the small enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh in southwestern Azerbaijan, between the majority ethnic Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh backed by the Republic of Armenia, and the Republic of Azerbaijan...

, when they are captured by Azerbaijani militants, with one subsequently being captured by the Armenians. During the course of events, the main character has flashbacks to his relationship with his father, as well as a depressive prostitute.

Cast

• Levan Doborjginidze - Gio
• Mikheil Meskhi - Gogliko
• Dato Iashvili
• Nutsa Kukhianidze - Jana
• Giorgi Gachechiladze - Utsnobi
• Gogi Kharabadze - Tengizi
• Nino Kasradze - Nana
• Robert Sturua
  Robert Sturua
  Robert Sturua is a Georgian theater director, who gained international acclaim for his original interpretation of the works of Brecht, Shakespeare, Chekhov. He was based at the Shota Rustaveli Dramatic Theater in Tbilisi, and has staged productions throghout the world.- Biography :Robert Sturua...
  
  
• Dasha Drozdovskaja - Journalist
• Giorgi Gurgulia
• Sandro Kakulia

Awards

• Grand Prize (Kinoshok - Open CIS and Baltic Film Festival
• FIPRESCI Prize (Tbilisi International Film Festival)