Cute Hans, dear Peter

"Alexander Mindadze is a screenwriter, film director. The holder of numerous awards, including the “Silver Bear” of the International Berlin Film Festival, “Nika”, “White Elephant” of the Guild of Kinovedes and Film Critics. For a literary contribution to cinema, he was awarded the Prize. Ennio Flyiano “Silver Pegasus”.
The book “Dear Hans, Dear Peter” included eight filmruks of Alexander Mindadze, some of which are published for the first time. The author remains an adherent of the Russian school of film dramaturgy of the 1970s, which filled the lyrics of ordinary city life and gave her voice to every person. Over time, the Mindazze style acquires a unique, only inherent code for him, and artistic statements become foresighting future events.
“The classic in his reverent respect for the national tradition, the modernist in the irreconcilable integrity of the defiantly literary writing, the postmodernist in the ongoing game with the audience and his expectations-Mindaze in his own way re-intelligent, the language of the Eastern European“ Cinema of Moral Axiety ”, turning it into cinema into the nesting anxiety.
Anton Dolin, film critic