
Directing
Rezo Chkheidze
Born — Died
1926-12-08 — 2015-03-05
Place of birth
Kutaisi, Georgia
Known for
Directing
Credits
18 titles
Rezo Chkheidze was born on December 8, 1926 in Kutaisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR [now Imereti, Georgia]. He was a director and writer, known for Nergebi (1972), Jariskatsis mama (1964) and Magdanas lurja (1955). He died on May 3, 2015 in Tbilisi, Georgia.
Known for
7.1When 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.
Father of a Soldier
1965
6.6This 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…
Magdana's Donkey
1955
9.0The head of the security service is faced with a choice: to continue serving the state or to give up everything in order to save his sick son.
Here Comes the Dawn
1998
4.5In the southern region of Georgia, in ancient Meskheti, a young man, Giorgi Toreli, is appointed as the secretary of the Raikom. He aims at the revival of his native region and for this he begins to fight against bureaucracy, autocracy, corruption, prevailing inertia.
O My Homeland!
1981
8.0The film is based on authentic events that took place in 1957 in Kursk. Fifteen years after the war, the sappers will have to clear away the ammunition depot left by the German's. The town rebuilt with such difficulty is under threat of explosion...
Life in Your Hands
1959
No synopsis available yet.
მაცხოვრის საფლავზე ანთებული სანთელი
2008
Film credits
1980s · 1 titles
Behind the camera
7.1When 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.
Father of a Soldier
1965
6.6This 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…
Magdana's Donkey
1955
9.0The head of the security service is faced with a choice: to continue serving the state or to give up everything in order to save his sick son.
Here Comes the Dawn
1998
4.5In the southern region of Georgia, in ancient Meskheti, a young man, Giorgi Toreli, is appointed as the secretary of the Raikom. He aims at the revival of his native region and for this he begins to fight against bureaucracy, autocracy, corruption, prevailing inertia.
O My Homeland!
1981
4.5In the southern region of Georgia, in ancient Meskheti, a young man, Giorgi Toreli, is appointed as the secretary of the Raikom. He aims at the revival of his native region and for this he begins to fight against bureaucracy, autocracy, corruption, prevailing inertia.
O My Homeland!
1981
No synopsis available yet.
მაცხოვრის საფლავზე ანთებული სანთელი
2008
No synopsis available yet.
მაცხოვრის საფლავზე ანთებული სანთელი
2008
6.7Film 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.
Look at These Young People!
1969
6.0Old 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.
The Saplings
1972
6.6A young girl named Maia disguises herself as a boy in order to fight against the enemies of her country.
Maia Tskneteli
1960
No synopsis available yet.
ქერათმიანი ქალიშვილი
1968
5.6A lyrical story about the people of neighborhood in Tbilisi.
In Our Courtyard
1956
7.0An old sailor is longing for the sea by walking along the beach. One day, he meets a group of young people by the seashore, forgets his age, and jumps into the waves with them.
Sea Path
1962
6.0Hardworking, honest Saulia and his young wife Fundu are living happy lives, but once while plowing, Saulia finds a precious treasure buried in the ground, and after that he is completely changed.
Treasure
1961



