Five days of delirium: movie about Misha

In “Rustavely” cinema that is in Tbilisi the magnificent event took place – the premier of “Five days of August” movie, of which so many were talked since before it was appeared in open public, was rendered. Later on in “Amirani” cinema the movie was featured in front of both the diplomats, accredited in Georgia, and the members of the Georgian parliament

The director of the movie Renny Harlin, who is one of the considerably famous in Hollywood, he has shot “Die Hard 2” and “Cliffhanger”, where the featured actors are: Rupert Friend, Andy Garcia, Val Kilmer, who, moved to the super-heavy weight category. It would seem that the gathered team is good and the movie should come out “in the groove”. Moreover, the subject is actual one up to now – the events of August, 2008 are analyzed by the politicians of different countries at present time.

The filming about the August war started in Georgia during fall, 2009. The director made the loud statements that his movie won’t be “anti-Russian, anti-Georgian, anti-American - the one will anti-Military”. We should only wait for this movie …

And here we got the result. For the premier of the movie there were invited over 800 guests, actors and members of the camera crew have arrived. Even Sharon Stone has arrived, although she has nothing to do with this movie. Though, besides her also the members of the Representatives House delegation of USA congress – David Dryer, David Price, Susan Davies and Brad Miller have arrived –. They were saluted with cheers. After the view, it had become clear – why…


But, first of all we will give the floating to the creators of “Five days of August” movie:

Director Renny Harlin:

-- This movie is the real history about the persons that were fighting for the freedom. It is the fantasy movie that transferred the events emotionally. I was not only the one, who cried, everyone cried. Unfortunately, it is the case, when the person can’t hold his emotions and wish to cry. I am really happy that I was able to transfer these emotions… Now I feel that Georgia has become the second motherland for me.

Actor Andy Garcia that performed the role of the President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili:
-- I hope that it will never happen again. In this movie I’ve played the role of the citizen of the world.

Georgia has tried, so that the movie was noticed all over the world – in April it was shown on the international film festival in Valencia, and in May within the frames of movie market the one was presented at the Cannes International Film Festival. After which the only thing left to do - to make the Georgian sound track for the movie and the open public showcase… Talking of the vocalization we would like to say that some Georgian mass-media reported that the role of President Saakashvili will be synchronized by … Mikhail Saakashvili himself. But, certainly they considered that it is overshoot – as in the movie the president got the same well-known tie, which he almost over chew within sight of amazed TV audience! The movie does not have this episode, of course…

Their credo, the creators of the movie labeled right away. The words of a certain American senator Hiram Johnson, which were said by him as far back as the beginning of the last century, showed up on the black screen: “The first victim of war is the truth”. If you turn away from details and watch the movie, as a fantasy, then of course from the first minutes you’ll be imbued with the sympathy to the main hero, whose name is Thomas Anders (“Modern Talking has nothing to do with it…)

First of all, in Iraq the Andres’s wife died, and he, personally, was saved by… the brave Georgian soldiers there!!! The description of the situation, how remarkable and honest journalist tried to discharge his duty is the content of this movie. But, it’s not just a fairy tale told; we have, as it was stated by the creators of the movie, nothing less than the drama-movie. And what kind of drama! It will give hundreds of score points of handicap of any fairy tale …

The characters are also quite fabulous, especially these that it is unnecessary to think up – the life has already contrived them. For example, the President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili in the movie – he is just a beneficent soul and fully spiritual man. The unfairness hurts him well, with all his powers he wanted to elude the war – that is why he is wandering in his office, while giving orders to his subordinates and attempting to open the eyes of the world society. For that matter, the quite good actor Andy Garcia didn’t have a really hard task – there is no need to chew a tie, also there is not any necessity to show a clean pair of heels at sight of the airplane, although, they say that during the shooting the ones tried to shoot such scenes, however the actor, in contradistinction from his hero Mikhail Saakashvili, didn’t succeed in such complicated tricks… The main thing is the similarity of appearance of actor with the real character. Here the director has hit the jackpot – he is similar to Saakashvili, and then some! The only thing is that he has not shifty eyes …

Vladimir Putin is not presented in this movie – he will glance once on the TV screen, when Saakashvili inform his amazed TV audience that “Putin said that he will lead the operation personally”… In return there are a lot of the Russian villains that are habitual to us per creations of cold war time in this movie. What is the price of the main scoundrel, which clarifies at once: “I am a Cossack”. The spectator had to dawn upon about it himself before, per the numerous tattoos and per the Old Russian habit to cut the throats of the prisoners and then to wet them with benzene and burn them up... Unambiguously, such appearance of Russian solider could come up in the head of the mentally sick person… And as to the Russian unbarbered colonel there is nothing to talk about it at all, because he looks best of all like a leader of Columbian drug mafia, which reached Georgia by unknown way.

It is interesting to know, did Renny Harlin watch our classic -- we mean the movie “Chapaev”. Do you remember the “banzai attack” that was shot with such brilliance?! Here there is not any brilliance, but the layout is impressing: from the edge of the sublitity, the harsh dismounted forces go down inexorably and the tanks dust behind it. And the helicopters put in fear from above… and the music underneath are corresponding one: it is not “The flight of Valkyries”, of course, indeed the director is not Coppola too…

The work with the subconscious is a whole movie. When, after capturing next village, the occupants are carrying geese in each hand, it is possible to remember the real frames of the chronicle. By the way, even as the newsreel left us the evidences of skedaddle of Saakashvili gallant army from Gori – it thought that the one will deal only with the armed Ossetian volunteers, and suddenly the Russian army appeared: without the captured geese and breeding sows, but with the real tanks, valley fires units and will-to-win spirit traditionally.

And once again “Five days of August” movie reveals the great secret: we are shown how the forces, by the appeal of their chief in command to fight for freedom, give powerful repulse to the enemy, keeping the Gory. But in the real life, as it has been already said, they were running in the direction of Tbilisi, so quickly that our commandos knackered to catch up them.

But, what does it matter! Finally the world saw, how really it has happened, how Georgian has strived for peace, and the Russian army, presented in the movie by wonderful neurasthenic characters, kills and robs peaceful population. And thank God, that still there is a press freedom – the artful Russians forced the world to listen to the information concerning the Beijing Olympiad only, but one patriot was found, the one carried a word of truth to mankind that turn out to be of the seventies years sample, but it s not principal – the movie was shot, money was received. Saakashvili and vice president of the USA Joseph Biden are satisfied. What else could you ask for?

Here it is the following fact: the Georgian regional TV company “Trialeti” (audience is about half million people) has announced that the one wants to go to law against the creators of the “5 days in August” movie. What is the reason for that? In one of the episodes of the movie, the foreign journalists try to transfer the memory card with the materials to the TV Company that expose the real face of Russia, but they are not really successful with it, because the TV Company building is closed – there is no any way to get there. Moreover, in shot the “Trialeti” TV company logotype and “chained door” are shown.

The representatives of the TV Company assume that this episode discredits “Trialeti” absolutely. As a matter of fact, there is not any secret that at the time of the five day war in the building of TV Company the media center was located exactly, from where the journalists of different countries were broadcasting their materials…

In this episode “Trialeti” sees nothing less than the “intentional distortion of facts by order of the first persons of the country”. What's the object of doing that? TV workers think that they are punished for the appearance of the objective information on the air. And now they are going to be at law with the director and producers of the movie.


Even here the creators of Hollywood-Georgian agitprop told a fib. They probably were in hurry … maybe they wanted to receive “Oscar”?