Nana Dzhordzhadze, born on August 24, 1948, in Tbilisi, Georgia, is a renowned Georgian film director, screenwriter, and actress. Dzhordzhadze's directorial debut, "Robinzoniada, anu chemi ingliseli Papa" (1987), won the Caméra d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. She has directed several acclaimed films, including "A Chef in Love" (1996), which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Her other notable works include "27 Missing Kisses" (2000) and "The Rainbowmaker" (2008).
The story of Pascal Ichak, a larger-than-life French traveller, bon vivant, and chef, who falls in love with Georgia and a Georgian princess in the early 1920s. All is well until the arrival of the Red Army of the Caucasus, as the Soviet revolution that has swept Russian comes to Georgia. Told as a flashback from the present, as a French-Georgian man whose mother was Pascal’s lover translates his memoirs for Pascal’s niece.
Pierre Richard as Pascal Ichak Micheline Presle as Marcelle Ichak Nino Kirtadze as Cecile Abachidze Jean-Yves Gautier as Anton Gogoladze Temuri Qamkhadze as Zigmund Gogladze Ramaz Chkhikvadze as Anton Gogoladze Kakhi Kavsadze as Le Président Guram Pirtskhalava as Platoon Khatuna Ioseliani as Mme. Kollontai
Cinematography: Giorgi Beridze Editing: Guili Grigoriani, Vessela Martschewski Music: Goran Bregovic
Temur Babluani, Thomas Bauermeister, Alexander Rodnyansky, Marc Ruscart
Irakli Kvirikadze, André Grall, Nana Dzhordzhadze