Star of My Town

Star of My Town 1970

1

Ololi, a young actress, returns to her family and hometown after separating from her husband. Her father's colleague wants to marry her, but his desire is driven more by ambition than genuine affection. However, Ololi falls in love with someone else, a young driver named Guja. Guja loves Ololi as well, but he struggles against societal judgment, which looks down upon the profession of an actress.

1970

Waltz on Mtatsminda

Waltz on Mtatsminda 1975

2.00

Nazo and Koba decide to apply to a theater institute, but despite Koba being accepted, they both return home, not wanting to study separately.

1975

From Yard to Yard

From Yard to Yard 1960

1

A poor nobleman, Solomon Morbeladze, rides his shaggy mule to earn his daily bread. Solomon has made matchmaking his profession, and in this way he must support his family and escape hunger, debts, and taxes.

1960

On Holiday

On Holiday 1962

1

For summer holidays Rezo and Daro are taken by their father to village.The siblings want to play and have fun with the other children, but the father imposes a strict regime on his children and forces them to spend the whole day in school. It is more difficult for the father to follow the regime than his children. And so it goes until the children rebel...

1962

Mimino

Mimino 1977

7.50

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.

1977

Repentance

Repentance 1987

6.86

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.

1987

Father of a Soldier

Father of a Soldier 1965

6.90

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...

1965

The Plea

The Plea 1967

6.25

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.

1967

Holiday in Expectation of a Holiday

Holiday in Expectation of a Holiday 1989

6.80

In the pre-war years in Sukhumi, Chik lived in the family of his aunt - a playful, but smart and kind boy. His days are filled with chores, studies, walks with friends, and, sometimes, skirmishes with the guys in the neighboring yard. From the attentive gaze of the boy, adult problems do not hide. Sensitive Chick suffers involuntarily when he sees injustice and cruelty.

1989

Mameluke

Mameluke 1958

6.25

In Arabic, “mameluke” means a white slave, a prisoner. In Egypt, this name was given to prisoners of war who had been sold into slavery from Georgia and other countries of the Caucasus. The action of this drama starts in Georgia in the late 18th century. Two friends are abducted and sold into slavery. One ends up in Egypt, the other - in Venice. Years later, they meet by the ancient pyramids, in the desert where a battle is going on between the armies of Bonaparte and Ali-bey, the ruler of Egypt. In a combat with a French officer, the Mameluke injures him. Falling from his horse onto the sand, the officer exclaims in Georgian: “Vai, nana!” (“Oh, mother!”). And the Mameluke recognizes in him a mate of his childhood games.

1958

An Unusual Exhibition

An Unusual Exhibition 1968

5.71

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...

1968

Kukaracha

Kukaracha 1982

6.20

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…

1982

The Legend of Suram Fortress

The Legend of Suram Fortress 1985

6.70

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.

1985

The Wishing Tree

The Wishing Tree 1976

6.90

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…

1976

Wedding

Wedding 1944

6.90

According to the eponymous vaudeville by A.P. Chekhov. Petty bourgeois Zhigalovs, whose daughter-in-law Dasha is being extradited, find out to their horror that the official Aplombov, who has been caring for Dasha all summer, has dined every day with them and has proved himself to be his bridegroom, is not going to marry at all.

1944

Blue Mountains, or Unbelievable Story

Blue Mountains, or Unbelievable Story 1983

7.10

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.

1983

19th-Century Georgian Chronicle

19th-Century Georgian Chronicle 1979

6.25

A poetized chronicle of the events taking place in one of the Georgian villages in the late 19th century, when, to save a forest, the innumerous intelligentsia could rally the people and oppose the industrialists…

1979

Stealing Of The Moon

Stealing Of The Moon 1973

1

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.

1973

Londre

Londre 1966

3.80

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.

1966