ARTICLE: Levan Zakareishvili the last Mohicans of Tbilisi

Late Georgian film director Levan Zakareishvili was a director who tried up until his last days to shoot a film about April 9th tragedy in Tbilisi( when anti-Soviet demonstration was depressed by the soviet army resulting in 20 death and hundreds of injures ) and who devoted his life to shooting a film about the unbearable living condition under the rule of former Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze. His film revealed the economic crisis, political chaos and rampant corruption during Shevardnadze’s reign in Georgia. Shevardnadze never obtained dictator status, but corruption flourished to such devastating levels that even professors, teachers and directors became marginalized in society.

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