Otar Megvinetukhutsesi

Acting

Otar Megvinetukhutsesi

Born — Died

1932-01-16 — 2013-05-08

Place of birth

Tiflis, Georgian SSR, TSFSR, USSR

Known for

Acting

Credits

36 titles

Known for

Data Tutashkhia poster
7.0

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.

Data Tutashkhia

1977

A Necklace for My Beloved poster
5.1

Three guys are living in a Dagestan aul, and all three are in love with the blue-eyed Serminaz. According to a mountaineers’ tradition, a young man seeking the hand and the heart of a beloved girl has to make her a present that she would remember for the rest of her life. The friends set out in search of the special gift…

A Necklace for My Beloved

1971

The Light of Autumn poster
6.2

Vakhtang is talented artist but family liabilities don't allow him to work seriously. His wife Eka takes advantage of husband's trip out of town and exchanges her flat for a house in a colorful old city and sets up the artist's studio.

The Light of Autumn

1973

Spirali poster
6.4

In an extreme emergency, a professor’s brain is transplanted into the body of a recidivist who died in a disaster, leading to dramatic consequences.

Spirali

1990

Fatima poster
6.2

A wealthy Ossetian prince adopts a foundling and raises her as his own daughter, Fatima. As Fatima grows up, she falls in love with her stepbrother, Dzhambulat. However, when Dzhambulat goes to war and disappears, Fatima defies her father’s wishes and decides to marry a poor labourer.

Fatima

1958

The Wishing Tree poster
7.1

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…

The Wishing Tree

1976

Film credits

1990s · 8 titles

Get Thee Out poster
5.1

In Russia at the turn of the century, a wealthy Jewish merchant enjoys the best of relations with his Russian neighbours, while his respected home forms the obvious social centre of the entire community. However, the atmosphere grows more tense as the local authorities come under pressure to fall in line with the officially sanctioned anti-Semitic policies of the Tsarist Government. The village elder is one of our hero's best friends and together they seem to find a way to outwit these evil intentions but unfortunately they fail to understand what forces they are dealing with in a country where anti-Semitism is state policy.

Get Thee Out

1991

Ghosts of the Past poster
9.0

At the end of the 17th century, Georgia, weakened by war with foreign enemies and internal feudal disorder, came under the influence of Iran. Georgian kings had to fight under the Iranian flag. A similar fate befell King George XI. He was forced to spend most of his life in Afghanistan and Baluchistan to quell the revolts against Iran.

Ghosts of the Past

1996

Женщина в море poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Женщина в море

1992

Lullaby poster
6.5

An infant girl is abducted from her family home by two drifters. Years later, her parents track her down, but she suffers from amnesia.

Lullaby

1994

Katka and Shiz poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

Katka and Shiz

1992

No artwork available
8.0

The last days of the life of the Russian writer A.S. Griboedov. Romance and marriage to Nina Chavchavadze. Assignment to Tehran. Death.

The Griboyedov's Waltz

1995

Budulai, Whom No-one Waits For poster
10.0

A new adaptation of the famous story of the gypsy Budulay. After serving 10 years in prison, Budulay returns to the Don village. He learns that his wife died, and the young son was taken up by a Cossack Claudius. The heroes of the film have a hard way to understanding, love and simple family happiness.

Budulai, Whom No-one Waits For

1994

No artwork available
5.0

Zaza Nakashidze is imprisoned for a murder he never committed. While in jail he tries to prove his innocence and with other prisoners, real murderers and thieves, dreams of freedom.

White Flags

1990

1980s · 8 titles

Khareba and Gogia poster
5.8

Khareba Jibuti, Prince Kharashvili’s right hand man becomes an outlaw after he witnesses a series of injustices. After meeting another outlaw Gogia Kenkiashvili he joins his bunch in the forest. They cause lots of trouble for the local rich thus winning the hearts and minds of poor people. Nevertheless, when captain Akhvlediani opens the hunting season on two renowned outlaws he finds a much-needed man who is ready to show him their whereabouts.

Khareba and Gogia

1987

Turandot poster
8.0

The plot of a modern parable about love, duty and purity of thoughts is based on the creative process of an opera theater troupe working on staging one of the most complex works of musical classics - G. Puccini's opera "Turandot".

Turandot

1989

What's the Point of Wrestling? poster
7.0

Kalenike, a peasant from Lechkhumi who has come to Kutaisi to sell walnuts, ends up at a wrestling show, where he tries his hand at the arena. He discovers an extraordinary talent for boxing. His coach and patron Baadur Kherkheulidze signs a contract with a foreigner and travels with Kalenike to Paris , where adventures await them.

What's the Point of Wrestling?

1986

The Way Home poster
4.8

The film is set in southern Georgia during Ottoman control, where inhabitants, who were driven from their homes due to enemy invasions, try to return home through different means. One of these inhabitants is the young scholar Antimoz.

The Way Home

1981

A Holiday of Solitude poster
NR

Characters from the sick Nikala's own paintings appear and talk to him.

A Holiday of Solitude

1980

Full Circle poster
9.0

Tbilisi, early 1980s. From the outside, everything seems calm, but behind this tranquillity there is turmoil. Manana, who used to be a movie star, is no longer remembered by any director. Her childhood friend Rusudan suffers from loneliness despite a successful scientific career. Manana's aunt, Matiko, mourns her late husband. Her daughter, 19-year-old Salome, and her friends are also facing life's difficulties. Through strange coincidences, the lives of the film's characters become intertwined...

Full Circle

1986

No artwork available
4.5

After the defeat of the 1905 revolution, the underground fighter Gio is sentenced to 25 years of hard labor. However, he manages to escape eight years later. Having lost his wife and daughter during this time, he decides to take revenge on the gendarmes. Gio's younger brother joins him in the mountains...

The Brother

1981

In Search of Lost Treasure poster
NR

Dying, the grandfather bequeathed to his grandson Luke to faithfully and truly serve the hero Vamekh, who, according to popular belief, should come and free the country from the oppression of the bloodthirsty vizier. Princess Twalta is also waiting for Vamekh's arrival - she must convey to him a family secret - a treasure, thanks to which Vamekh will become invulnerable. However, the vizier's mercenaries kidnap her from the monastery where Twalta was hiding. Luka, his friends, Bakur and Zaal, save the princess, but they themselves find themselves in an enemy trap. In the old abandoned fortress they will have to fight their last battle.

In Search of Lost Treasure

1987

1970s · 7 titles

A Necklace for My Beloved poster
5.1

Three guys are living in a Dagestan aul, and all three are in love with the blue-eyed Serminaz. According to a mountaineers’ tradition, a young man seeking the hand and the heart of a beloved girl has to make her a present that she would remember for the rest of her life. The friends set out in search of the special gift…

A Necklace for My Beloved

1971

The Light of Autumn poster
6.2

Vakhtang is talented artist but family liabilities don't allow him to work seriously. His wife Eka takes advantage of husband's trip out of town and exchanges her flat for a house in a colorful old city and sets up the artist's studio.

The Light of Autumn

1973

The Wishing Tree poster
7.1

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…

The Wishing Tree

1976

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

ცოტნე დადიანი

1971

Farewell, Inesa! poster
8.0

A popular actor, Alonso plays the role of a noble knight on stage, but in real life, in the face of hooligans, he turns out to be a coward.

Farewell, Inesa!

1972

Seekers of the sunken city poster
9.5

The children have decided to discover the sunken city. The children are helped in their search by the gardener Ermile, who has a number of things and paintings in his house that confirm the existence of the sunken city, removed from the bottom of the sea.

Seekers of the sunken city

1972

Stealing Of The Moon poster
8.3

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.

Stealing Of The Moon

1973

1960s · 7 titles

Kind People poster
7.7

Instead of going to the front, where he had decided to go after his father’s death, Giga Betaneli ends up at a defence factory in Donbass. His fiancée Nana, who had not received any letters from him, believed he had died. Several years later, Betaneli returned and started working at a metallurgical plant. To his surprise, he discovered that Nana had married his new friend Tamaz. Devastated by the news, Giga realised that nothing could be changed.

Kind People

1961

The Right Hand of the Grand Master poster
5.7

It is set during the 11th century and tells of the reign of King George I. He is at war with Byzantine Empire ruled by Basil II. Apart from ongoing war, he has to fight rebellious Georgian tribes. Problems occur when King George falls in love with Shorena. For her, the King is willing to go against the church. The story is based on famous novel by Konstantine Gamsakhrudia.

The Right Hand of the Grand Master

1969

Who will harness the horse? poster
9.0

After the death of his wife, the skilled horseman Alkha Chamba found himself abandoned with his children. Seeking solace, he moved to the city. The proud old man grappled with the emptiness of his yard and gate. Determined to give his grandson a better life, he decided to return him to the village. This way, the boy could grow up in his family, learning the traditions and becoming a worthy successor as a brave rider. Especially since the boy had been raised in a boarding school after his parents’ divorce.

Who will harness the horse?

1963

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

უსახელო უფლისციხელი

1968

The Plea poster
6.8

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.

The Plea

1967

Under One Sky poster
6.8

A three-part feature film by Georgian director Lana Ghoghoberidze, dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the Soviet Union. The film is based on Leo Qiacheli's short story "Princess Maya" and Archil Sulakauri's novels "Doves" and "Fresco". These three stories are separated by a 20-20 year interval (1921, 1941, 1961).

Under One Sky

1961

Tariel Golua poster
9.0

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.

Tariel Golua

1969

Series credits