Akaki Khorava

Acting

Akaki Khorava

Born — Died

1895-04-27 — 1972-06-23

Place of birth

Ochkhamuri, Kutaisi Governorate, Russian Empire [now Ajaria, Republic of Georgia]

Known for

Acting

Credits

17 titles

Akaki Khorava was a Georgian and Soviet actor, theater director and pedagogue. He appeared in more than fifteen films from 1924 to 1965. He is best known for his performances in The Great Warrior Skanderbeg and Giorgi Saakadze

Known for

The Great Warrior Skanderbeg poster
6.4

A biography of George Kastriot Skanderbeg widely known as Skanderbeg, a 15th-century Albanian lord who defended his land against the Ottoman Empire for more than two decades.

The Great Warrior Skanderbeg

1953

Horrors of the Past poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Horrors of the Past

1925

A Wedding of Jays poster
6.9

To revenge brave jay Zakara, evil crown Kvanchala teams with a fox and kidnaps Zakara's bride Ketevan from the wedding. Kvanchala's cruel plan fails as Zakara's friends help him to rescue Ketevan and the fiesta continues.

A Wedding of Jays

1958

Mameluke poster
6.5

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.

Mameluke

1958

My Grandmother poster
5.6

The protagonist, a lazy pen-pusher, gets the sack for his bureaucratic idleness, and learns that the way back into the job market depends on getting a letter of recommendation from a "grandmother"

My Grandmother

1929

The Nail in the Boot poster
6.6

Banned in the Soviet Union for its "negative" content and never released, Kalatozov was forced to retreat from filmmaking for seven years because of this film. The film sets out to illustrate the old adage, "For want of a nail, the battle was lost," showing how the inferior quality of something so trivial as a nail in a soldier's boot leads inexorably to the capture of an armored train. Kalatozov had intended to demonstrate the crucial and universal importance of efficiency in Soviet industry, but the government decided that his fable gave a negative impression of the Red Army's capabilities.

The Nail in the Boot

1931

Film credits

1950s · 4 titles

The Great Warrior Skanderbeg poster
6.4

A biography of George Kastriot Skanderbeg widely known as Skanderbeg, a 15th-century Albanian lord who defended his land against the Ottoman Empire for more than two decades.

The Great Warrior Skanderbeg

1953

A Wedding of Jays poster
6.9

To revenge brave jay Zakara, evil crown Kvanchala teams with a fox and kidnaps Zakara's bride Ketevan from the wedding. Kvanchala's cruel plan fails as Zakara's friends help him to rescue Ketevan and the fiesta continues.

A Wedding of Jays

1958

Mameluke poster
6.5

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.

Mameluke

1958

This Is How Mayakovsky Began poster
7.0

Based on the autobiographical book "Ya -sam" (I-myself) by Vladimir Mayakovsky the leading Russian Futurist poet of the beginning of the 20th century. He was born in 1893, into a Russian Cossack family in the Transcaucasian kingdom of Georgia, then part of Russian Empire. There he spent his childhood and boyhood attending a grammar school in Kutaisi. Mayakovsky moved to Moscow at the age of 14, after his father's death. He became a poet, an artist, an actor, a writer/director and public speaker.

This Is How Mayakovsky Began

1959

1930s · 3 titles

1920s · 5 titles