There's enough information packed into Paul Devlin's documentary about the woes besieging the former Soviet republic of Georgia for two movies, but keep your ears pricked and your wits about you and you won't find a more gripping treatment of Georgia's troubled transition from communism to market capitalism. Economic catastrophe and civil strife have plagued Georgia and its capital, Tbilisi, ever since the republic declared independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, and things only seem to be getting worse. Witness the series of energy crises that tore Tiblisi apart beginning in 2000, not long after the government's sale of Telasi, the company responsible for distri...
Released:
2003
Rated:
NR
Length:
86 mins