1974 · comedy · drama · satire
The Eccentrics
Directed by Eldar Shengelaia1h 19m1974
Ertaoz travels to the city with the intent to sell a chicken and pay off his father's debts. Upon arrival, he falls for the beautiful Margalita and decides to help her dispose of her ex-lover's body. However, at the cemetery, the lover–a policeman–unexpectedly regains consciousness and arrests Ertaoz and the chicken. Ertaoz is sentenced to ten years, while the bird receives seven. In prison, they meet an inventor who has built a flying machine that runs not on fuel but the power of love.
Our read: The Eccentrics (1974) reads as a warm, steady, inventive comedy · drama · satire entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, steady, gentle comedy / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- inventive
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