A younger Georgian immigrant named Sébastien (George Babluani) is having a look to supply cash for his circle of relatives in want, of their newly followed French native land. When a temp activity employer dies ahead of paying him, Sébastien steals a letter from the deceased that comprises mysterious, but attractive possibilities for riches. Following thru at the letter’s directions will end up to be greater than he bargained for. Sébastien enters an underground international the place gamblers line up to take motion on different fortune seekers who play a multi-round recreation of Russian Roulette (it makes “The Deer Hunter” appear to be kid’s play), with the final guy left alive cashing in. Each and every contestant is assigned a number, and Sébastien will get caught with fortunate 13 (within the Georgian language, Tzameti/ცამეტი is 13).
“13 Tzameti” was once directed via the celebrity’s brother Géla. The latter’s extraordinarily intense, perpetually gripping 2005 debut characteristic was once shot in wonderful black and white, as he stated it “gets rid of one realism and replaces it with every other.” The movie gained best prizes at Sundance, Venice and quite a lot of different movie gala’s world wide.
In a while after the movie’s unencumber, Hollywood snapped up Babluani and had him remake his personal movie, however dropped the “Tzameti” from the name and shot it in colour. Whilst the all-star tricky man forged is a dream crew on paper — Jason Statham, Ray Winstone, 50 Cent, Mickey Rourke, Michael Shannon, Ben Gazzara, Alexander Skarsgård — the ensuing movie did not translate fairly as smartly, and was once a important and field place of job sadness.
