Follows Georgian ex-wrestler’s journey to Brooklyn, New York. His aim is to get his son out of a gambling debt. He meets people who help him and people who ignore him.
A screen adaptation of the novel of the same name by the well-known Georgian writer Nodar Dumbadze. This story about love and loyalty, bravery and betrayal, began shortly before the Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Georgy Tumurashvili, a militia man, was affectionately called “Cucaracha”, by both the kids and the adults. He was a conscientious divisional inspector investigating various incidents, calling to order local hoodlums and settling family arguments. Once he helped out Inga who fell prey to Murtalo, a bandit and murderer. The young people fell in love with each other. But Murtalo decided to take revenge on Kukaracha…
The setting is the east shore of the Caspian Sea (today's Turkmenistan) where the Red Army soldier Fyodor Sukhov has been fighting the Civil War in Russian Asia for a number of years. After being hospitalised and then demobbed, he sets off home to join his wife, only to be caught up in a desert fight between a Red Army cavalry unit and Basmachi guerrillas. The cavalry unit commander, Rahimov, "convinces" Sukhov to help, temporarily, with the protection of abandoned women of the Basmachi guerrilla leader Abdullah's harem. Leaving a young Red Army soldier, Petrukha, to assist Sukhov with the task, Rahimov and his cavalry unit set out to pursue fleeing Abdullah.Sukhov and women from Abdullah's harem return to a nearby shore town. Soon, looking for a seaway across the border, Abdullah and his gang come to the same town...
The day after his funeral, the corpse of Varlam Aravidze, the mayor of a small Georgian town, turns up in his son's garden. Although it is secretly reburied, the corpse keeps returning until the police capture the local woman who is responsible. This woman says that Varlam should never be laid to rest since his Stalin-like reign of terror led to the disappearance of her family and friends.
When peasant Georgy Makharashvili hears that his soldier son is lying wounded in a hospital, he sets out to visit him. However, unknown to him, his son has been sent back to the front. Reluctant to return home and in a vain attempt to locate his boy, Georgy joins the Red Army in it's unrelenting push to the west.
The modest and indecisive Lebedev in his dreams sees himself as strong and courageous. Mentally, he stands up for an unfairly demoted colleague, but in reality does nothing to help him. Oleg has been following the girl he likes for a whole year and is unable to force himself to get to know her. It is becoming more and more difficult for two Lebedevs to get along in one person ...
The film is based on a real story. Climbers found the purse of a military postman killed during World War II, letters sent 30 years later.
Marita arrives at a small village in Georgia to live with her aunt. She meets a poor young lad, Gedia, and falls in love with him. But her relatives are determined to marry the girl off to a local rich man…
Benjamin, the local doctor is a soul of a local society, the educated, friendly, democratic person who often treats the poor for free. It makes him very popular with the locals but most certainly does not help with his bank account. He is in love with a beautiful Manette who is also crazy about him but is being watched closely by her father who called his daughter "his small capital" and is determined to protect her virginity until the moment the marriage contract has been signed...
Three guys are living in a Dagestan aul, and all three are in love with the blue-eyed Serminaz. According to a mountaineers’ tradition, a young man seeking the hand and the heart of a beloved girl has to make her a present that she would remember for the rest of her life. The friends set out in search of the special gift…
An author - a passive young man - enters the Soviet-controlled bureaucracy of Georgia attempting to get his novel published only to be neglected and compartmentalized at every turn.
A young worker takes a job at a local state run winery only to discover and become disillusioned by the corruption of the Soviet State.
It’s about a 13th-century Georgian legendary avenger, the noble robber Matsi Khvitia, who bravely fought against the princes’ arbitrary rule.
In the midst of Alaverdoba, an ordinal person plays out a trick to awake pilgrims and their moral spirits, and to remind them of the true meanings of the religious festival.
Giorgi follows his son's request and goes to the city to spend the winter. Only Loma, Giorgi's Caucasian shepherd remains in thedeserted village.
Boys Luka and Bacho live and study in a boarding school. Both have no parents. Luka draws beautifully. But when professional artist Gogi Karsanidze adopts him, the boy returns to the boarding school because he cannot live without his friend Bacho...
Georgia of the 1920s. An honest, charming, but naive fisherman Lado helps all those in need. And they benefit from his kindness, first of all the miller Stephen, a greedy person, but times are changing and people like Stephen have no future.
Against the backdrop of facts taken from modern reality, the idea is advanced that youth should actively participate in building society, and feelings of complacency and irresponsibility are condemned from a civic standpoint.
Returning from the army, Pierre starts working for the police. Before joining the army, he loved his neighbor Tina, who moved to another city. One day a house is being broken into and Pierre is wounded by criminals.
Soviet Georgian film by Eldar Shengelaia. Based on short story by D. Kldiashvili
Same franchise
In the midst of Alaverdoba, an ordinal person plays out a trick to awake pilgrims and their moral spirits, and to remind them of the true meanings of the religious festival.
Shares a lead actor · Same director
It’s about a 13th-century Georgian legendary avenger, the noble robber Matsi Khvitia, who bravely fought against the princes’ arbitrary rule.
Shares 2 cast members · Same director
Same franchise
Marita arrives at a small village in Georgia to live with her aunt. She meets a poor young lad, Gedia, and falls in love with him. But her relatives are determined to marry the girl off to a local rich man…
Shares 3 cast members
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Nurick and Yaroslav are trying to robe a criminal boss. Unfortunately Nurick dies but returns to the world with a mission: to be the guardian angel of Yaroslav.
Baadur accidentally gets a lottery ticket which he can win a prestigious car - a white Volga GAZ-24.
Tadeoz Toroshelidze is the most reknowned wine drinker in the whole area. Once he even won a drinking horn in a competition that has rested in his house ever since.
Screen adaptation of F. Gorenshtein's satirical stories. A short story film allegorically depicting the life of Soviet Georgia.
The film tells the story of the adventures of the usual mischievous girl, full of tricks, which will promote the love of a blind elderly grandmother and grandfather, lies misled those around you. But naturally kind and intelligent child soon he realizes that would be to all people and has promised that from now on will become a model pupil
Using a marriage broker, a Prince in dire financial straits plans to marry the wealthy daughter of a merchant, The girl is in love with the nephew of the prince. Forced by her father into the unwelcome match, she finds a friend in another matchmaker. They arrange it so that the prince will not like the girl when he meets her.
This musical is based on old Georgian vaudevilles and plays. The early 20th century. Old Tiflis is in confusion and turmoil. A mysterious fairy is helping the poor Pavle’s family: real wood is burning in his old, neglected fireplace, wherein a pot with meat would suddenly appear. The good fairy is impersonated by laundress Vardo who helps not only the poor Pavle, but other families in this quarter as well. Vardo is known to many people in the town, but no one ever suspected that she was capable of performing miracles. The film’s colorful folk melodies, merry songs and fiery dances leave no viewer indifferent. Starring in the leading role is the great Georgian actress Sofiko Chiaureli.
Gogia brings home a kvevri (georgian wine vessel) made in Imereti in Kakheti . Kvevri brought from a distance with a sledgehammer breaks carelessly. Gogia takes craftsman Abesalom home, who repairs the kvevri, but he himself will get stuck inside of it .
The two neighbors, Amiran (ამირანი) and Gramiton (გრამიტონი), are cantankerous individuals who argue about everything for no reason. Their constant bickering is very amusing to everyone in the village, as they compete to see who is better.
This is the story of the Tbilisi-Batumi train, which, due to a switchman's mistake, first enters the line of occupation of the Georgian region of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, then the train enters the city of Chiatura.
Vakhtang is talented artist but family liabilities don't allow him to work seriously. His wife Eka takes advantage of husband's trip out of town and exchanges her flat for a house in a colorful old city and sets up the artist's studio.
Dangerous criminals attempt to involve children in their crimes, but law enforcement officers manage to promptly put a stop to their activities.
A sixteen novels about a life of a people in Tbilisi, capital of Georgia.
Don Quixote and Sancho Panza arrive in Georgia to free Prometheus - the same Amiran, who is chained in the Caucasus Mountains. They meet the local prince Luarsab and go with him in search of Amiran. Their journey is both funny and sad. They try to establish justice, help everyone, but their actions are incomprehensible to the population. They encounter cruelty, indifference, categoricality... However, they also meet good people.
The young craftsman Gogia and the village girl Tasia fall in love with each other. Arriving in Tasia's village accompanied by a wedding procession, Gogia Can't find his bride anymore, Turns out by the order of Tasia's godmother, the duke's wife, she was taken to the duke's house as a servant. The elderly duke liked Tasia and decided to marry her. Gogia with the help of his friends, Karachokheli, tries to get his bride back.
A poor, fatherless young man loves the daughter of a wealthy family, the woman's parents are opposed to their marriage. When the village was threatened by cholera, the couple managed to sneak away from their parents at night and marry.
The film is based on the fables of Sulkhan-Saba Orbelia
