Blue Mountains, or Unbelievable Story (1983)
Eldar Shengelaia’s Blue Mountains is a deadpan Soviet satire about a writer whose manuscript vanishes into the absurd bureaucracy of a Georgian publishing house. Office workers lounge, gossip, and do everything but read his book. Quietly hilarious and hauntingly prescient, it’s a Kafkaesque portrait of institutional inertia, where meaning is lost in endless paper trails. A rare gem that skewers systems with warmth, wit, and a surreal sense of futility.
Original Georgian language with English subtitles