Georgian-language Movies

38 movies found (page 1/2):

Mimino(1977)

3.8/5 (with 36 votes)

Georgian bush pilot Valentin (Valiko) Mizandari a.k.a. Mimino works at small local airlines, flying helicopters between small villages. But he dreams of piloting large international airlines aircrafts, so he goes to Moscow for refresher courses. There in a hotel he meets truck driver Robik who is given a place in that hotel by mistake, and they have a lot of adventures in Moscow. Always amicable and open to people, Mimino does not feel at home in the big city. Nevertheless, he becomes a pilot of a supersonic jet liner, the Tupolev Tu-144, flying all over the world. But feeling homesick, he finally comes back to his native town of Telavi in Georgia, to his family and friends.

Directed by Georgiy Daneliya - With Vakhtang Kikabidze, Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Yevgeny Leonov, Boryslav Brondukov, Elena Proklova, Kote Daushvili, ...

Kin-dza-dza!(1986)

2h 15min | Comedy, Drama, Science Fiction

4.0/5 (with 99 votes)

Two Soviet humans previously unknown to each other are transported to the planet Pluke in the Kin-dza-da galaxy due to a chance encounter with an alien teleportation device. They must come to grips with a language barrier and Plukian social norms (not to mention the laws of space and time) if they ever hope to return to Earth.

Directed by Georgiy Daneliya - With Stanislav Lyubshin, Levan Gabriadze, Yevgeny Leonov, Yury Yakovlev, Nikolay Garo

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Father of a Soldier(1964)

1h 23min | Drama, War

3.6/5 (with 14 votes)

During World War II, оld Georgian peasant wine-grower Georgy leaves his Georgian village and goes off to the front line, hoping to find his son. George should see and transfer a lot of things, he becomes a soldier and only in the last days of war finds the son...

Directed by Revas Chkheidze - With Sergo Zakariadze, Vladimir Kolokoltsev, Yuri Ivanovich Drozdov, Aleksandr Lebedev, Viktor Kosykh, Aleksandr Nazarov, ...

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Robinsonade, or My English Grandfather(1987)

1h 16min | Comedy

3.1/5 (with 3 votes)

The film tells a strange story, in flashback, about a British Telegraph Company’s engineer named Hughes appearing in a distant Guria village. Falling in love with the beautiful Anna, the Englishman became the enemy of her brother, Bolshevik Nestor. Both Hughes and Nestor were shot dead by Lavrenty Mgeladze, who had once had everything, but later was dispossessed and driven out of the village. The old Anna told that story to a young composer who recorded the music: “My dear homeland, why are you weeping?…”.

Directed by Nana Jorjadze - With Janri Lolashvili, Nineli Chankvetadze, Guram Pirtskhalava

Repentance(1987)

2h 33min | Drama, Comedy

3.7/5 (with 22 votes)

The day after the funeral of Varlam Aravidze, the mayor of a small Georgian town, his corpse 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.

Directed by Tengiz Abuladze - With Avtandil Makharadze

Pirosmani(1969)

1h 25min | Drama

3.5/5 (with 13 votes)

This Soviet film is a biography of the Georgian primitive artist Nikoloz Pirosmanishvili (1862–1918), better known as Pirosmani, who died of starvation and sold his paintings to bars and restaurants for food and drink. The film experiments with color control techniques based on the painter’s style.

Directed by Giorgi Shengelaia - With Avto Varazi, Zurab Kapianidze, Dodo Abashidze

Eliso(1928)

1h 30min | Drama, History, Romance / Love, War, Adventure

2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

Georgia, 1864. The Tsarist regime is using Cossacks to forcibly resettle Muslim Georgians to Turkey in order to steal their land. Meanwhile a Muslim girl falls in love with a Christian from the next village.

Directed by Nikoloz Shengelaya

Don't Grieve!(1968)

1h 30min | Romance / Love, Comedy, Drama

3.0/5 (with 10 votes)

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...

Directed by Georgiy Daneliya - With Vakhtang Kikabidze, Anastasiya Vertinskaya, Dodo Abashidze, Yevgeny Leonov, Sergo Zakariadze, Sofiko Chiaureli, ...

Blue Mountains, or Unbelievable Story(1983)

1h 37min | Comedy, Drama

3.9/5 (with 4 votes)

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.

Directed by Eldar Shengelaya - With Ramaz Giorgobiani, Sesilia Takaishvili, Giorgi Chkhaidze, Guram Lortkipanidze, Otar Koberidze, Guram Petriashvili, ...

The Plea(1967)

1h 12min | Drama

3.4/5 (with 7 votes)

Brave sons of Khevsureti and Kisteti fight against each to protect their homelands. But, they confront faulty domestic traditions to respect enemy’s true prowess and find themselves in conflict with own compatriots.

Directed by Tengiz Abuladze - With Spartak Bagashvili

The Legend of Suram Fortress(1985)

1h 23min | Drama, Fantasy

3.5/5 (with 14 votes)

A film version of a well-known Georgian folk-tale. A young boy has to be immured into the walls of a fortress in order to stop it from crumbling to pieces.

Directed by Sergei Parajanov, Dodo Abashidze - With Sofiko Chiaureli, Dodo Abashidze, Zurab Kipshidze, Levan Uchaneishvili

The Wishing Tree(1976)

1h 47min | Drama

3.4/5 (with 8 votes)

This poetic parable is part of Tenghiz Abuladze’s cinematic triptych: “The Supplication” – “The Wishing Tree” – “Repentance”. The place is Georgia at the beginning of the 20th century. That’s how director Tenghiz Abuladze described his film: “’The Wishing Tree’ is a film about the people lit up by a dream. Every character has its own ideal. One is worshipping the skies, another the earth, some idolize the body, others elevate the spirit. Some destroy the body, others the soul…” Marita, the film’s heroine, arrived here 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….

Directed by Tengiz Abuladze - With Sofiko Chiaureli, Kakhi Kavsadze, Ramaz Chkhikvadze, Lika Kavzharadze, Zaza Kolelishvili, Givi Berikashvili, ...

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The Eccentrics(1974)

1h 19min | Comedy, Fantasy

3.6/5 (with 3 votes)

Surrealistic movie about prisoners who invent flying apparatus.

Directed by Eldar Shengelaya - With Vasili Chkhaidze, Dato Jgenti, Ariadna Shengelaya, Boris Tsipuria, Abrek Pkhaladze, Merab Eliozishvili, ...

Magdana's Donkey(1955)

1h 12min | Drama

3.1/5 (with 4 votes)

This chamber drama is set in Georgia on the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. A simple peasant family makes its living by selling yogurt which the Magdany widow takes every morning to the town market. Once, in their mother’s absence, the children – six-year-old Mikho and three-year-old Kato – found an abandoned donkey on a road leading to their village. The foundling was fed, tended, and the moment the donkey opened its big, tender eyes, it was named “Lurdja”, which means “blue-eyed”. Surrounded by love and care, the donkey became a big help in the poor household. But this idyll was not to last long….

Directed by Tengiz Abuladze, Revas Chkheidze

Me, Grandma, Iliko and Ilarion(1962)

1h 30min | Comedy, Romance / Love

3.0/5 (with 3 votes)

The residents of a Georgian village bungle their way through war, peace, life and death.

Directed by Tengiz Abuladze - With Sesilia Takaishvili, Aleksandre Zhorzholiani

Ashik Kerib(1988)

1h 13min | Drama, Music, Fantasy, History

3.1/5 (with 17 votes)

Wandering minstrel Ashik Kerib falls in love with a rich merchant's daughter, but is spurned by her father and forced to roam the world for a thousand and one nights. Now presumed dead by those he loves, he performs for the poor and unfortunate on his journeys through the wilderness. Parajanov's visually ravishing 'tableaux vivants' tell Lermontov's romantic tale while Turkish and Azerbaijani folk songs transport us into its mystical landscapes.

Directed by Sergei Parajanov, Dodo Abashidze - With Sofiko Chiaureli, Kostiantyn Stepankov, Dodo Abashidze, Iuri Mgoiani, Ramaz Chkhikvadze

Melodies of the Vera Quarter(1973)

1h 36min | Music, Comedy

3.2/5 (with 4 votes)

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.

Directed by Giorgi Shengelaia - With Sofiko Chiaureli, Vakhtang Kikabidze, Dodo Abashidze, Kakhi Kavsadze

April(1961)

45min | Romance / Love, Comedy, Drama

2.8/5 (with 7 votes)

A critique of materialism, the film is about a young couple who live in a rundown empty apartment. Their love is so strong that it makes the water flow and the electricity work, but when they start purchasing furniture and knickknacks, they fight and grow apart.

Directed by Otar Iosseliani

Who Is Guilty?(1925)

1h 50min | Drama, Romance / Love, Western, Adventure

Blinded by the desire of wealth, mother of Siko makes him leave behind his wife and child and go to America.

Directed by Alexandre Tsutsunava

An Unusual Exhibition(1968)

1h 29min | Drama, Comedy, War

2.8/5 (with 1 vote)

The war is over. Once a young sculptor, and now a soldier, he returned home. Married, there were children. In search of work, he was hired to make grave monuments. Time passed... At one time, visiting a cemetery with friends, he saw with different eyes all his work done over the years...

Directed by Eldar Shengelaya - With Guram Lortkipanidze, Valentina Telichkina, Vasili Chkhaidze, Dodo Abashidze

Ilan Dili(1926)

1h 36min | War, Western, Action, Adventure, Music

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

After demobilization from the Red Army, the former “red devils” decide to settle in Baku. They go to work in the chemical laboratory of one of the oil industry enterprises. Here, young heroes come to grips with the fraudster Usseinov - and soon, as hostages, find themselves on the uninhabited island of Illan Dilly...

Directed by Ivan Perestiani - With Sofiya Jozeffi

Great Green Valley(1967)

1h 25min | Drama, Kids & Family, Romance / Love

3.0/5 (with 3 votes)

A group of geologists discover oil under the fields where Sosana, the aged and anachronistic father, raises his herd with his unhappy wife, her friend and his growing boy with whom he displays a wonderful rapport. The land is invaded by big machinery that feels remarkably alien to the serene and natural aesthetic of the valley. The family all enjoys the pleasures and storytelling capacity a slide projector grants them, but it too feels distinctly out of place in a town with no plumbing.

Directed by Merab Kokochashvili - With Dodo Abashidze

A Day Longer Than Night(1983)

2h 18min | Drama, Romance / Love, Music

2.3/5 (with 1 vote)

This somber story of love lost forever is set against the backdrop of the changes that Communism brought to the state of Georgia in the former USSR after the 1917 Revolution. Eva and Archil are deeply in love and they pledge to be with each other always. After they marry, Archil dies suddenly and Eva is left alone and childless. Along comes the ruthless Spiridon who romances Eva and marries her - though his cold and cruel spirit break Eva's naturally buoyant self, until she sullenly eats alone, and avoids intimacy with her husband as much as possible. They adopt a daughter, who does not take sides between her glum mother and silent father. When the Communist cadres enter their village to promote the ideals of the October revolution, Eva starts to warm to her husband a little because he joins in that movement. Then her husband commits the fatal error of revealing a previous crime - an error that will later cause their grown daughter to question her parents' strange behavior.

Directed by Lana Gogoberidze - With Darejan Kharshiladze, Tamar Skhirtladze, Guram Pirtskhalava, Guranda Gabunia

Serenada(1971)

25min | Comedy

Georgian about Charli chaplini.

Keto and Kote(1948)

1h 31min | Comedy, Romance / Love, Music

1.4/5 (with 2 votes)

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.

Directed by Vakhtang Tabliashvili - With Medea Japaridze

Voyage of the Young Composer(1985)

1h 45min | Drama, Comedy

2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

The year is 1907. The young composer Nikusha sets out on a journey over the villages of Central Georgia to record folk songs. For this he provides himself with a map of the places he would like to visit. His accidental co-traveler is Leko Tatasheli who is convinced that the composer is on a mission of the revolutionary committee and his map is the plan of a future uprising….

Directed by Giorgi Shengelaia - With Levan Abashidze, Leila Abashidze, Zurab Kipshidze, Ruslan Mikaberidze, Chabua Amirejibi

Savur-Mogila(1926)

1h 20min | War, Comedy, Adventure, Kids & Family, Fantasy

1.4/5 (with 1 vote)

At a military demonstration Red Imps: Misha, Duniasha and Tom Jackson bring a captured enemy, dangerous Makhno.

Directed by Ivan Perestiani - With Sofiya Jozeffi

Alaverdoba(1962)

52min | Romance / Love

2.8/5 (with 2 votes)

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.

Directed by Giorgi Shengelaia - With Avto Varazi

A Necklace for My Beloved(1971)

1h 15min | Romance / Love, Drama

2.8/5 (with 3 votes)

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….

Directed by Tengiz Abuladze - With Ramaz Giorgobiani, Nani Bregvadze, Leonid Yengibarov, Kakhi Kavsadze, Erosi Manjgaladze

Krazana(1928)

1h 35min | Action, Drama, Adventure, War, Romance / Love