Shultes

Bakur Bakuradze was born on 16 March 1969, in Tbilissi in Gerorgia. In 1993, he enrolled in the directors department at the Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK), where he studied under the supervision of prominent Russian film director Marlen Khutsiev. He graduated in 1998. He has already directed two documentary films, The Diamond Way in 2005 and Moscow in 2007, which won many awards in festivals. Shultes is Bakur Bakuradze's first fiction feature. "The idea of the screenplay grew out of my realization that the individual leads a full-fledged existence so long as he has a connection with the past, which secures his path into the future. The worsening of loss of memory is a problem that the individual cannot solve –it destroys him. It happens in secret like theft, and your recognition that it's happening hits you as suddenly as the realization that pickpockets have slashed your bag, or that your car isn't where you parked it. When we lose our memories we practically lose our connection with the world. It turns out that there is no past for us to draw on and thus it's impossible to draw on the future. We are forced to take what we need from other people : in their bags there is something that is secured by the past and the future. By stealing object and stories form other people's lives, this character fills in the empty cavity of his own "destiny". That's where my thief came from, from the sens of being "ripped off"."