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Bashi-Achiki is a hero in personal and patriotic battlefields during an uprising against Persian conquerors. Started in Kakheti, the uprising spread all over the Georgia and lead to Bakhtrioni war of liberation. Director Leo Esakia Stars Otar Koberidze Dodo Abashidze Lia Eliava. 3. Me, Grandma, Iliko and Ilarion.
The current fascination with the nation’s latest generation of filmmakers – from Soso Bliadze to Salomé Jashi – is creating interest in both classic and contemporary Georgian movies. You can enjoy a handpicked collection of great Georgian movies online here on Klassiki.
- There Once Was a Singing Blackbird (1970) Director: Otar Iosseliani. Otar Iosseliani’s charming, wry comedy There Once Was a Singing Blackbird riled the Soviet authorities by lampooning their reverence for an industrious work ethic.
- Pirosmani (1969) Director: Giorgi Shengelaia. Niko Pirosmani, a turn-of-the-century primitivist artist, was perhaps Georgia’s greatest painter. Director Giorgi Shengelaia spent hours as a child gazing at his works in the homes of his parents’ friends, and later made the painter the subject of his idiosyncratic, melancholic masterpiece, Pirosmani.
- Some Interviews on Personal Matters (1978) Director: Lana Gogoberidze. A key feminist film that links the private with the political, director Lana Gogoberidze’s drama Some Interviews on Personal Matters is focused on Sofiko (Sofiko Chiaureli), a dedicated journalist who interviews women about their lives, dreams and labour.
- Blue Mountains, or Unbelievable Story (1983) Director: Eldar Shengelaia. Satirical comedy Blue Mountains, or Unbelievable Story is a classic directed by another member of the talented Shengelaia family, Eldar (both Eldar and Giorgi are the offspring of Nikoloz Shengelaia, a founder of Georgian cinema, and actress Nato Vachnadze, one of the first Soviet movie stars.)
- Once Upon A Time There Was A Singing Blackbird (1970), Otar Iosseliani
- My Grandmother (1929), Kote Mikaberidze
- What Do We See When We Look at The Sky (2021), Alexandre Koberidze
- The Plea (1967), Tengiz Abuladze
- Salt For Svanetia (1930), Mikhail Kalatozov
- The Color of Pomegranates (1969), Sergei Parajanov
- Eliso (1928), Nikoloz Shengelaia
- Extraordinary Exhibition (1968), Eldar Shengelaia
- Mimino (1977), Giorgiy Daneliya
- Pirosmani (1969), Giorgi Shengelaia
Controlled disarray and the mathematical accuracy of montage are the principal motifs of Otar Iosseliani’s cinematic world. Initially, he started an education at the faculty of mathematics in Moscow but soon changed his mind went to Moscow State Film Institute (VGIK). Now he’s living in France as an honored filmmaker from the post-soviet state, Geo...
One of the notable pictures of avant-garde cinema “My Grandmother” possesses a huge history of Soviet censorship. Mikaberidze directed only 6 films throughout his career and only the above mentioned is known for the big audience however in 2017 National Archives of Georgia hosted a display of his works including photographs, sketches, and documenta...
An emerging Georgian director Alexandre Koberidze sets a lulling fairy tale in the 21st century. The auteur exposed the visual brilliance in his 2017 debut feature “Let the Summer Never Come Again” shot by old junk Sony Ericsson camera. It’s a 3h and 22m film with bold experiments and a nostalgic overview of Tbilisi, the capital city of Georgia.
Adapted from a Georgian pen-master Vazha Pshavela’s notable narrative poems, “The Plea” is presumably the most tenebrous picture in the history of Georgian film. Vazha Pshavela himself was one of the earliest humanist authors in Georgia who also took his readers to gloomy places to encounter truth from experiencing darkness. Directed by well-acclai...
Mikhail Kalatozov is one of the most prominent names in the history of world cinema. He framed an exhilarating loving triangle of WWII “The Cranes are Flying” in 1957, celebrated a Cuban revolution with expressionistic “Soy Cuba” in 1964, and a guilt-driven Soviet-Italian co-production “The Red Tent” in 1969 with Sean Connery, Claudia Cardinale, an...
Also, an enormous name of an international cultural scene Sergei Parajanov’s “The Colour of Pomegranates” is an alluring masterpiece. Not just an acclaimed but Parajanov’s name was also way too controversial in the Soviet Union. Of Armenian origins, he was born in the center of Tbilisi, Georgia, then he went to study in Russia, Moscow and started h...
An eccentric poet and a novelist and a character in the Georgian Futurist stage Nikoloz Shengelaia shot an action-driven expressionist drama “Eliso” in 1928. Shengelaia made his career making unconventional portrayals of forbidden love on the screens of silent films.
An older son of the previously pronounced Nikoloz Shengelaia, Eldar Shengelaia can equally be described as Milos Forman of Georgian cinema. His outrageously grotesque and ironic portraits of society make him a dissident filmmaker of the 1960s. Though he made only twelve feature films in his sixty-three years of career he remains one of the biggest ...
Giorgiy Daneliya was a master of unconventionally comic narratives and imagery with his eccentric “Kin-Dza-Dza” (1986), satirical “Afonya” (1975), or with his 1979 melancholic masterpiece “Autumn Marathon.” “Mimino” is a pukka case of Georgian golden era films with grief and joy, comedy and drama, and lots of carnivalesque occasions.
Giorgi Shengelaia is also a master from the Shengelaia family who has experimented with lots of genres. He made musicals, also historical and battle films, a controversial adaptation of a popular story, and even the first erotic Georgian film or a slapstick comedy. “Pirosmani” titled after the dedicated Georgian artist chronicles the painter’s life...
1. My Happy Family (2017) 120 min | Drama. 7.4. Rate. 86 Metascore. In a patriarchal society, an ordinary Georgian family lives with three generations under one roof. All are shocked when 52-year-old Manana decides to move out of her parents' home and live ... See full summary »
1. Tangerines (2013) Not Rated | 87 min | Drama, War. 8.1. Rate. 73 Metascore. In 1992, war rages in Abkhazia, a breakaway region of Georgia. An Estonian man, Ivo, has decided to stay behind and harvest his crops of tangerines. In a bloody conflict at his door, a wounded man is left behind, and Ivo takes him in.
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