Acting

Zurab Kapianidze

Born April 2, 1937 · Nakieti village, Oni district, Georgian SSR, USSR

Died July 4, 2011 · aged 74

Zurab Kapanadze (born April 1, 1937, Nakieti village, Oni district - died July 4, 2011, Tbilisi) was a Georgian actor. People’s Artist of Georgia (1979), Laureate of the Shota Rustaveli State Prize (1985). In 1961, he graduated from the theatrical faculty of the Shota Rustaveli State Theater Institute in Tbilisi. From 1961 to 1964, he worked at the Kutaisi Lado Meskhishvili State Drama Theater. F…

Known For

Poem of Kovpak: Carpathians, Carpathians...

Poem of Kovpak: Carpathians, Carpathians... · 1978

Poem of Kovpak: Carpathians, Carpathians...

MovieWarAdventure

A third of a series of movies about Kovpak - the partisans chief during WWII.

Door

A comedic short story about an unlucky "lucky guy" who tried to steal a door from a construction site.

Return

Vazha served his sentence for stealing a cow and returned to the village. Upon his return, he decided to repair the house. His friends promised to help, but then everyone had their own business.

Clicks

MovieComedyTV Movie

Screen adaptation of F. Gorenshtein's satirical stories. A short story film allegorically depicting the life of Soviet Georgia.

Crucified Island

Crucified Island · 1968

Crucified Island

MovieActionDrama

Based on true story of Georgian uprising on Texel. Insurrection of captured Soviet-Georgian soldiers conscripted into German Wehrmacht on Holland's Texel Island during German occupation of Holland

The Last Vendetta

The Last Vendetta · 1966

The Last Vendetta

MovieDramaHistory

When Imeda’s father is killed in a blood revenge accident, the family moves him to the city where he is sheltered at his father’s friend. After fifteen year he gets back to Khevsureti. A talented painter, he spends most of his time doing sketches of nature and people. There he meets a local beauty, Mzekala and fells in love with her but finds out that Torghva is also in love with her. Enraged by Imeda’s impudence Torghva calls him for a sword fight and is killed by Imeda. To avoid another round of blood revenge, the villagers let Imeda and Mzekala out of the village but someone who wants Imeda’s blood finds it out and follows them.

Pirosmani

Pirosmani · 1969

MovieDramaHistory

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.

The Chained Knights

The Chained Knights · 2000

The Chained Knights

MovieComedyFamily

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.

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Poem of Kovpak: Carpathians, Carpathians...

Poem of Kovpak: Carpathians, Carpathians... · 1978

Poem of Kovpak: Carpathians, Carpathians...

MovieWarAdventure

A third of a series of movies about Kovpak - the partisans chief during WWII.

Zurab Toladze

Door

A comedic short story about an unlucky "lucky guy" who tried to steal a door from a construction site.

Return

Vazha served his sentence for stealing a cow and returned to the village. Upon his return, he decided to repair the house. His friends promised to help, but then everyone had their own business.

Clicks

MovieComedyTV Movie

Screen adaptation of F. Gorenshtein's satirical stories. A short story film allegorically depicting the life of Soviet Georgia.

Crucified Island

Crucified Island · 1968

Crucified Island

MovieActionDrama

Based on true story of Georgian uprising on Texel. Insurrection of captured Soviet-Georgian soldiers conscripted into German Wehrmacht on Holland's Texel Island during German occupation of Holland

Simona

The Last Vendetta

The Last Vendetta · 1966

The Last Vendetta

MovieDramaHistory

When Imeda’s father is killed in a blood revenge accident, the family moves him to the city where he is sheltered at his father’s friend. After fifteen year he gets back to Khevsureti. A talented painter, he spends most of his time doing sketches of nature and people. There he meets a local beauty, Mzekala and fells in love with her but finds out that Torghva is also in love with her. Enraged by Imeda’s impudence Torghva calls him for a sword fight and is killed by Imeda. To avoid another round of blood revenge, the villagers let Imeda and Mzekala out of the village but someone who wants Imeda’s blood finds it out and follows them.

Apareka

Pirosmani

Pirosmani · 1969

MovieDramaHistory

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.

Ushangi

The Chained Knights

The Chained Knights · 2000

The Chained Knights

MovieComedyFamily

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.

Look at These Young People!

Look at These Young People! · 1969

Look at These Young People!

MovieComedyDrama

Film school desk akhladaprenil guys from Tbilisi in the early days of World War II soldier's overcoat to put on, temporarily put aside their dreams, loved ones and fire parted ways scattered. Thus began a new phase of their lives, gantsdebita and misery. Yesterday's long-suffering smile in front of the boys grow up into fighters.

Shaliko

Falling Leaves

Falling Leaves · 1966

MovieRomanceDrama

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.

Dato's companion

On the Track of the Wolf

On the Track of the Wolf · 1977

On the Track of the Wolf

The film reproduces the events of the summer of 1921, when Kotovsky, at the head of a separate cavalry brigade, completed the defeat of the Antonov counterrevolutionary rebellion in the Tambov region, destroying Matyukhin's gang.

The Fastest People in the World

The Fastest People in the World · 1985

The Fastest People in the World

Rachvelians, notables with their slowness tell awkward, partly unbelievable and very funny anecdotes they have gone through, while their countryman participates in long-distance race.

Markoz

The Plea

The Plea · 1967

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.

Zviaduri

Tbilisi, Paris, Tbilisi

Tbilisi, Paris, Tbilisi · 1980

Tbilisi, Paris, Tbilisi

Tbilisi in the beginning of the 20th century . Emigrants who moved from Tbilisi to Paris for various reasons cannot resist the feeling of nostalgia and decide to return to their homeland by air balloon .

Odishelidze

Wedding

Wedding · 1973

Beginning in 1943. year. The tragic story of the prisoners... partisans and others who were found in a prison in Montenegro at the time when the Chetniks and the occupiers at all costs they want to crush the uprising in Yugoslavia.

Jovan Vuksanović

Tariel Golua

Tariel Golua · 1969

MovieRomanceAction

Georgian village during the revolution of 1905. The struggle of the peasantry against the landlords. Tariel Golua's son, Levan, leads the rebellion. Tariel himself is in favor of a peaceful solution to the conflict, but when his son is brutally killed, and the houses of the rebels and their supporters are set on fire, Tariel is convinced that it is impossible to gain freedom without an armed struggle.

Bezhana

Chermen

Chermen · 1970

This historic drama is set in an Ossetian village in the 17th century. The film’s main hero is Chermen. An illegitimate son, Chermen is striving to assert his dignity. He is opposed by Dacco, the elder of the Aldar clan, in whose village Chermen lives. Guided by mercenary motives, Dacco strikes a deal with Prince Tsarai. Together, they rob people and then divide the loot between themselves. By some chance, Chermen learns of the deal and informs his friends about it. At first, he thinks that no one in the Aldar village would believe him, the bastard, and that the plot would remain unexposed. But the friends accept the challenge.

Berdia

Small Town of Anara

Small Town of Anara · 1978

Small Town of Anara

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.

Zura

Feola

MovieFamilyComedy

A man is put in charge of organizing a children's soccer team, but he doesn't know anything about the sport.

Besik - violinist

Londre

MovieComedyMusic

This touching comedy follows a poor soldier who is mistaken for Jesus Christ in a poor village. The film tells the story of a quick-witted and resourceful soldier who uses this misidentification to outsmart rich merchants, the mayor, and finally Father Ambrose, the local priest, who is known for being a glutton and womaniser.

Avalanche

Avalanche · 1975

The story of the enthusiasts of the 1930s - the pioneers of the Khibiny and conquerors of the icy tundra.

I Want to See You

I Want to See You · 1978

I Want to See You

Fritz Schmenkel, a farm worker and soldier in the fascist Wehrmacht, deserts in Belarus in 1941. He wants to survive, makes his way to Russian farmers and comes into contact with Soviet partisans who, after long interrogations by the German teacher and current partisan Miron, take him in as one of their own. Schmenkel proves his reliability in a number of daring actions and is awarded the Order of the Red Banner. In the winter of 1943/44, he is given a reconnaissance mission and falls into the hands of the fascists in Minsk. After days of interrogation, which he withstands, the Nazis execute him.

Stealing Of The Moon

Stealing Of The Moon · 1973

Stealing Of The Moon

The story is based on Konstantine Gamsakhurdia's novel and depicts the social and political changes taking place in Soviet Georgia in the 1930s through the line of the main characters: Tarash Emkhvari and Arzakan Zvambaya.

Lomkats Tarba

The Saplings

The Saplings · 1972

Old Luka dreams to plant rare pear saplings in his orchard, so that after years his beloved grandson Kakha will enjoy its fruits. In his tough journey to get the saplings, Luka gives Kakha lots of life lessons.

Cart driver

Data Tutashkhia

Data Tutashkhia · 1977

Data Tutashkhia

A just man becomes an outlaw. He is pursued by the police over the years, while he tries to fight the injustice in the world, but he can't figure out the minds of his fellow men, and is often misunderstood.

Bekar Jeiranishvili

The Book of Oath

The Book of Oath · 1983

The Book of Oath

SeriesDramaWar & Politics

The tragic events in Georgian history, spanning from the 16th to the 18th centuries, culminated in the signing of the Treaty of Georgievsk in 1783, which placed Georgia under Russian protection.

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New Arcadia

New Arcadia · 1986

Two pensioners sheltered a lost cow on the ninth floor of a city house.