Escape at Dawn
5.6
The trial of political prisoners is taking place in the Kutaisi prison. They face hanging or life imprisonment. In order to release them from prison, a party figure, nicknamed "Chagara" and a revolutionary woman, "Vardo", aka Nato Nakashidze-Volfisa, come to the city. She rents a house near the prison, supposedly to open a knitting workshop. Will they be able to escape?
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Cast
20 people
Megi Tsulukidze
Nato
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Imedo Kakhiani
Andro
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Gogi Gegechkori
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Jemal Sikharulidze
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Bergi
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Otar Koberidze
Kotsia Eristavi
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Jemal Ghaghanidze
Melkonov
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Dudukhana Tserodze
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Spirali
Siko Dolidze Director · Rezo Ebralidze Writer Feliks Vysotsky Cinematographer
First release December 1, 1975 · Produced in Russia · Original title გაქცევა გათენებისას
Production
Georgia-Film
Production
Russia
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Original title
გაქცევა გათენებისას
Original language
Georgian
Spoken on screen
Georgian
Release dates
Russia · December 1, 1975
Limited theatrical · Georgian · Tbilisi
No release date listed for United States.
Russia
February 7, 1977 · Theatrical · Russian · Whole country
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