The Hunter

About the film

Farmer Ivan Dunaev gets up early. He feeds his piglets, does paperwork, fixes the tractor, and weighs the meat he'll take in his old pickup truck to the market to sell. He has a wife, a teenage daughter, and a young son. And he loves to hunt. Then, one day, two new workers, Lyuba and Raya, on work release from the local prison colony, arrive on the farm. Something begins to change.

• Written by

  Bakur Bakuradze

• DOP

  Nikolay Vavilov

• Starring

  Mikhail Barskovich, Tatiana Shapovalova

• CO-PRODUCER

  Archil Gelovani, Guillaume de Seille

• STUDIOS

  Salvador D, CTB Film Company, Independent Film Project, Vita Aktiva

Press

• “The Hunter” is Bakuradze’s second feature film.

  The East European Film Bulletin

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• The Georgian director deals with similar themes to those of his first film, looking at the day-to-day existence of a man whose life is turned upside-down by a woman.

  The Festival de Cannes

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• The film, soft-paced yet filled with tension, in which faces, gestures, actions and words are the tangible result of an obviously patient and keen observation of reality and people, can be seen as a melancholic song, a ballad sung in an undertone.

  Mubi

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• Hyper-naturalistic (fielding an entire cast of non-professionals), agricultural, and glacial in pace, Bakur Bakuradze's second film The Hunter is unafraid to make demands of it's audience over a two-hour-plus running time.

  Screen Daily

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