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The Eccentrics

Name: The Eccentrics
Director: Eldar Shengelaia
Released: 1974
Duration: 79 min

Representation Score

3.5/10

Limited

1974

Director

Eldar Shengelaia

Runtime

79 minutes

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The Eccentrics is a surrealist comedy that finds its strength in challenging institutional logic and Western narrative norms. By using a fantasy framework, the film critiques rigid bureaucracy through absurdism, such as sentencing an animal to prison time. However, the film lacks explicit representation of multiple aspects of diversity. The narrative remains centered on a traditional heterosexual pairing, and there is no evidence of diverse gender identities or disability representation within the story.

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Category Breakdown

Does The Eccentrics have LGBTQ+ representation?

Minimal

The film centers on a heterosexual relationship between Ertaoz and Margalita. There are no visible depictions of LGBTQ+ identities or non-assuming gender matches what was assigned at birth characters.

How does The Eccentrics portray gender?

Fair

Margalita plays a key role in initiating the main conflict, showing she has significant control over the plot. She is not a passive character due to her involvement in the inciting incident.

How racially and ethnically diverse is The Eccentrics?

Fair

This Georgian production provides a non-Western perspective outside of Hollywood dominance. It reflects the specific ethnic landscape of the Soviet Georgian era.

How does The Eccentrics represent religion and culture?

Good

The film criticizes bureaucracy through absurd legal sentences and emphasizes humanistic values over mechanical logic. The central invention operates on love rather than fuel.

Does The Eccentrics include disability representation?

Minimal

There is no information available regarding the depiction of physical or neurodivergent disabilities in this work.

Present on Screen

Offers a non-Western perspective that challenges traditional Hollywood narrative structures.
Uses surrealism to provide a unique critique of rigid, illogical state bureaucracies.
Features a female lead who play a significant role in driving the story who drives the central plot conflict.

Limited or Absent

Lacks representation of LGBTQ+ identities or non-assuming gender matches what was assigned at birth gender expressions.
Provides no visible depiction of physical or neurodivergent disabilities.
The romantic focus remains strictly within a traditional heterosexual framework.

Official Synopsis

Ertaoz travels to the city with the intent to sell a chicken and pay off his father's debts. Upon arrival, he falls for the beautiful Margalita and decides to help her dispose of her ex-lover's body. However, at the cemetery, the lover–a policeman–unexpectedly regains consciousness and arrests Ertaoz and the chicken. Ertaoz is sentenced to ten years, while the bird receives seven. In prison, they meet an inventor who has built a flying machine that runs not on fuel but the power of love.

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