Synopsis
Paris, 1994. Anton Gogoladze comes across the jumbled pages of an old manuscript apparently written at the turn of the century by his mother, the beautiful Princess Cécilia. Episode by episode, the notes retrace the tumultuous, eccentric and amorous adventures of an old "travelling cook", Pascal Ichac, a colourful, thrill-seeking, footloose French chef who personally waited on the Emperor of China. Princess Cécilia Abachidze, who eventually became Ichac's mistress, said of him: "Pascal is like a prospector who sifts through tons and tons of earth to extract a single speck of gold."
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Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Les Films du Rivage
- Co-production : La Sept Cinéma
- Foreign production companies : Studio Babelsberg, Sotra, Innova, Compagnie Méditerranéenne de Cinéma (CMC) , Studio Adam & Eve
- French distribution : CTV International
Full credits (15)
- Executive Producer : Marc Ruscart
- Assistant directors : Marc Barbault, Grégory Kourilsky
- Foreign producers : Temour Babluani, Thomas Bauermeister, Alexander Rodnyansky
- Sound Recordist : Claude Bertrand
- Screenwriter : Héracli Kvirikadze
- Director of Photography : Giorgi Beridze
- Camera Operator : Baptiste Magnien
- Production managers : Ludovic Henry, Marc Barbault
- Press Attaché (film) : Denise Breton
- Editors : Vessela Martschewski, Guili Grigoriani
- Continuity supervisor : Pascale Guilbaud
- Production Designers : Vakhtang Rouroua, Teimour Chmaladze
- Music Composer : Goran Bregovic
- Costume designer : Larissa Djordjadze
- Make-up Artist : Catherine Crassac
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : French, Georgian, Russian
- Coproducer countries : Georgia, Russia, Ukraine, Germany, France
- Original French-language productions : Yes
- Nationality : Majority French (Georgia, Russia, Ukraine, Germany, France)
- Production year : 1996
- French release : 08/01/1997
- Runtime : 1 h 40 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 87.028
- Visa issue date : 26/08/1996
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Dolby SR
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About
At home, when I was a child, a battered old recipe
book often lay on the kitchen table. With its help,
my mother would cook up these absolutely divine
dishes. Strangely, the author of this book of
Georgian cuisine was French. The author's
biography on the back cover said that Pascal
Ichac had opened a restaurant called "Eldorado"
in Tbilisi in the 20s. It had attracted gourmets
from Asia and Europe. In the 30s, the Communists
evicted him and requisitioned the restaurant. He
died of hunger, alone, in the attic of his
restaurant. I decided to adapt this book of recipes
for the screen. Pierre Richard and the director,
Nana Djordjadze, gave my idea life. (Irakli
Kvirikadze, screenwriter)
