Synopsis
Father of a Soldier (1965) is a Georgian war drama by Rezo Chkheidze, free to watch online on iFILM. An aging vine-grower, Georgy Makharashvili, learns his son lies wounded in a frontline hospital. The old man packs up and sets off to see him.
War, though, keeps moving. By the time the father arrives, his son has been discharged and sent back into the fight. With no reason to return to his village, the peasant who spent a lifetime tending grapes pulls on a soldier's greatcoat himself. He follows the Soviet Army across the whole war, all the way to Berlin, searching for one man among millions. Along the road wait the deaths of strangers, scorched fields, boys in uniform, and his own stubborn love of the soil.
Sergo Zakariadze plays Georgy, a performance that earned him the Lenin Prize and made the weathered old soldier one of the most moving figures in Soviet wartime cinema. The film skips heroic noise entirely; its power lives in peasant wisdom and the quiet dignity of a man who hates war yet walks through every mile of it. Stream Father of a Soldier (1965) online on iFILM.
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