Patsura

Patsura (1976) is a Georgian family drama you can watch online on iFILM. Running just 25 minutes, the short film was directed by Rostom Lortkipanidze.

A Georgian village in the first years after the war. Patsura and her younger sisters are orphans now — their parents are gone, and the household falls on the oldest girl's shoulders. Their days are hard. Then a well-off couple offers to adopt Patsura and give her a comfortable home, and she turns them down: leaving her sisters behind for her own sake is unthinkable to her. The cast includes Marina Megvinetukhutsesi, Marina Mikashavidze and Maya Maysuradze.

A quiet story about a child's sense of duty proving firmer than any grown-up calculation. Postwar Georgian cinema knew how to say something large through the fate of one small child, and this is exactly that kind of film. Stream Patsura (1976) online on iFILM.