The Northeast Winds აღდგომა [Aghdgoma]

Local Stalinists resist when the statue of Stalin in Gori, the dictator’s birthplace, is torn down. But immersed in nostalgia and ideology, they fail to see that the world has irrevocably changed.

"In Gori, the Georgian city where Joseph Stalin was born, a group of Stalinist nostalgic die-hards goes into crisis when the local government orders the last statue of the dictator in the city to be taken down. Through an observational documentary style, Nikoloz Bezhanishvili films the state of disappointment of these citizens, who still dream of returning to the time when Stalin was in control, and how they organise themselves to get the statue erected again. During this process, the group comes into conflict with the local Stalinist Party, and the camera reveals the group's internal contradictions as their different interpretations of ideology become apparent. All this, without any of them being able to see that their nostalgia world no longer exists and that among the new generations no one is interested in Stalin."
(DocsBarcelona - International Documentary Film Festival)