The Criminal Man

133'

Georgia, Russia 2019

fiction, drama

Director	Dmitry Mamuliya
Scriptwriter	Dmitry Mamuliya, Archil Kikodze
DOP	Anton Gromov, Alisher Khamidkhodzhaev
Producer	Suliko Tsulukidze, Tamara Bogdanova, Mikhail Karasev
Studio	Millimeter Film
Cast	Giorgi Petriashvili, Natalia Jugheli, Madona Chachkhiani, Svetlana Iunenko, Vladimir Kobakhidze, Vasilisa Zemskova

Festivals

2019	Venice Film Festival (Orizzonti)
2019	Pingyao Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon International Film Festival
2019	Bosphorus International Film Festival (Best Director)
2019	Thessaloniki International Film Festival
2019	Listapad International Film Festival (Лучший сценарий / Лучший саундтрек)
2019	Lisbon&Sintra International Film Festival
2019	Tbilisi International Film Festival (Лучшая операторская работа)
2019	Kerala International Film Festival
2020	Black Movie International Festival of Independent Films
2020	Göteborg Film Festival
2020	Spirit of Fire (Grand Prix)
2020	Transilvania International Film Festival
2020	Golden Apricot International Film Festival
2020	Moscow Premiere
2020	Lendoc Film Festival
2020	Sputnik

A deputy-chief engineer from an industrial factory, Giorgi Meskhi, becomes an accidental witness to the murder of a famous goalkeeper. Affected deeply by what he saw, it infects him like a virus, until eventually becoming his obsession. Absorbed by everything connected with crime, he studies the faces of criminals, as if trying to solve some kind of a mystery. Being a ‘nobody’, he commits a series of actions in an attempt to become "somebody", but who? A murderer?

Dmitry Mamuliya

Film director, screenwriter, theorist of literature and cinema, author of poetic and philosophical texts. He graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of Tbilisi State University (1993) and the Faculty of Advanced Course for Screenwriters and Film Directors. Currently Dmitry Mamuliya is the Artistic Director of the Moscow School of New Cinema.