Revaz Gabriadze

Writing

Revaz Gabriadze

Born 1936-06-29 · Kutaisi, Georgian SSR, USSR

Revaz "Rezo" Gabriadze was a Georgian theatre and film director, playwright, writer, painter, and sculptor. In addition to writing the scripts to some of the most popular comedies of the Soviet era, he won widespread acclaim for his work as the founder and artistic director of a puppet theatre in his hometown of Kutaisi, Georgia. His son, Levan Gabriadze, is also an actor and film director.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Kin-dza-dza! poster
7.7

Two Soviet humans previously unknown to each other are transported to the planet Pluke in the Kin-dza-dza 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.

Kin-dza-dza!

1986

Mimino poster
7.6

Local Georgian pilot Mimino dreams of flying airplanes for major international airlines. To realize his aspirations, he goes to Moscow where he encounters a fellow comrade from the Caucasus, the Armenian Rubik. Many misadventures ensue.

Mimino

1977

Rezo poster
7.9

The rich inner world of famous Georgian theater and film director, artist and puppeteer Rezo Gabriadze is as fantastic as the animation into which he has poured this story of his life. Rezo’s director son Levan "Leo" Gabriadze, who previously made the horror film Unfriended (2014), leaves it to his father to talk about a life suffused with magical thinking.

Rezo

2018

Caucasian romance poster
7.0

Relatives of the beautiful Mardjan consider Elberd unworthy of her hand. Father, uncle and grandmother keep the girl locked up. And for protection they use a whole pack of dogs. But the cunning Elberd manages to lure the dogs into large baskets, hang them high on the branches of trees, and take his beloved out of the house.

Caucasian romance

1975

The Eccentrics poster
7.3

Ertaoz travels to the city with the intent to sell a chicken and pay off his father's debts. Upon arrival, he falls for the beautiful Margalita and decides to help her dispose of her ex-lover's body. However, at the cemetery, the lover–a policeman–unexpectedly regains consciousness and arrests Ertaoz and the chicken. Ertaoz is sentenced to ten years, while the bird receives seven. In prison, they meet an inventor who has built a flying machine that runs not on fuel but the power of love.

The Eccentrics

1974

Luck poster
6.7

Baadur accidentally gets a lottery ticket which he can win a prestigious car - a white Volga GAZ-24.

Luck

1980

Kvevri poster
5.7

Gogia brings home a kvevri (georgian wine vessel) made in Imereti in Kakheti . Kvevri brought from a distance with a sledgehammer breaks carelessly. Gogia takes craftsman Abesalom home, who repairs the kvevri, but he himself will get stuck inside of it .

Kvevri

1971

One Fine Day poster
8.5

A film almanac consisting of two short stories, united by a common idea of the need to maintain harmony between private and public interests: “Suite” and “One Fine Day”. The hero of the story ”Suite" is a lifeguard on the shore. The events taking place at sea do not bother him at all. To the music of Bizet, he dreams of Carmen, her exploits, valor and strong love... The hero of the short story “One Fine Day”, a promising researcher, one morning saw a spaceship from his balcony. Do this a little restlessly to his mother-in-law, neighbors, acquaintances, boss and, finally, to a psychiatrist...

One Fine Day

1977

Stairs poster
9.0

A part of Almighty Love

Stairs

1975

Spare Wheel poster
NR

Gogi is on his way to celebrate the New Year. On the snowy road, he meets a beautiful girl whose car broke down. Gogi gives the tire of his car to beautiful stranger, and he himself, fascinated by his own behavior, meets the New Year alone in the car on a deserted road.

Spare Wheel

1977

White Stones poster
7.0

The film tells about a dreamy photographer who always perceives the world and the clients who come to him with a poetic eye. One day, he falls head over heels in love with a bride who came with her husband to take a picture, whom the groom leaves and runs away. The photographer sincerely offers his hand and heart to the crying woman.

White Stones

1974

Serenade poster
5.3

Two men fight to win the heart of a charming girl. One is much stronger, but it seems that only physical strength means nothing.

Serenade

1968

An Unusual Exhibition poster
6.5

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...

An Unusual Exhibition

1968

Three Rubles poster
6.2

Having found three rubles on the road near a change house, road masters Abessalom, Beso and Gigla decided to go to the city.

Three Rubles

1975

No artwork available
NR

Puple, Valerian and Asiko are elderly actors. People no longer pay attention to the famous actors of the past. The troupe went on tour without them. They gladly agree to introduce their art to the residents of the village of Fandauri, but as they arrive in the village they find out that they have been invited to the opening of the spring, and they are only asking them for a poem or just a word that touches their heart. The cheerful mood of the actors will be replaced by a sad one.

Spring On A Roadside

1975

The Passport poster
6.1

Merab, a Georgian taxi driver who mistakenly crosses into Israel while seeing off his Jewish brother, Yasha, gets stuck without documents. He gets entangled in bureaucratic nightmares, mistaken identity, and KGB plots while trying to return home.

The Passport

1990

Three Grooms poster
7.0

Kahi and Baadur get a letter from Berik, who sent them photographs of women and a letter in which he informs them that he has decided to marry one of them. Having also decided to build their family life with unmarried others, the friends buy a hive of bees and set off on the train.

Three Grooms

1978

Dreams of Kojori Forest poster
5.5

Experimental puppet film based on jazz variations of Georgian urban folklore. Musical compositions are performed by singers (puppets) gathered in Kojori Forest to celebrate The New Year

Dreams of Kojori Forest

1978

Thermometer poster
6.3

Three road workers apply road markings. Exhausted by the excruciating heat, Gigla pretends to be sick by putting a randomly found street thermometer in his bosom.

Thermometer

1975

Watermelon poster
4.0

The sun and the moon team up with a hardworking watermelon farmer to teach a lesson to a lazy person.

Watermelon

1974

Lemon Cake poster
7.8

Road masters Abessalom, Beso and Gigla decide to enjoy lemon cake for dessert.

Lemon Cake

1977

Lemon Cake poster
7.8

Road masters Abessalom, Beso and Gigla decide to enjoy lemon cake for dessert.

Lemon Cake

1977

Betting poster
5.2

Three road workers set at a rest stop waiting for paint to apply road markings.

Betting

1975

Don't Grieve! poster
6.2

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...

Don't Grieve!

1968