
Acting
Shota Kristesashvili
Born 1941-02-20
Acting credits
The film tells the story of two people who fall into the same ordeal. Someone shoots them, but does not kill them. Due to this strange fact, one of them becomes the object of persecution by law enforcement agencies, flees the city in fear, begins to act rashly and eventually commits a very serious crime. The other finds sympathy from the same law enforcement agencies, turns the incident itself into the center of the city's beau monde, and probably would have fulfilled his cherished dream, if not for ...
Game
1990
The film tells with light humor the devastating effect that fear instilled by a dictatorial regime has on a person, how it clouds and shuts down the mind, and ultimately destroys the personality.
The Fear
1996
10.0Foreign adventurers arrive in a small town of Georgia on a special mission, but locals hospitality and customs make them forget their goals completely.
Mister Adventurers
1985
NRA satirical transformation of popular fairy tale motifs.
The Firebird Riders
1985
NRBoy’s first encounter with human cruelty occurs as hunters kill and skin a bear. The gruesome scene sparks physical disgust, spiritual anxiety, profound guilt, and growing alienation from the adults.
The Fog
1985
NRThe first Georgian 3D animated film.
A New Year's Tale: The Battle for the Wishing Crystal
2010
4.8The story of Pascal Ichak, a larger-than-life French traveller, bon vivant, and chef, who falls in love with Georgia and a Georgian princess in the early 1920s. All is well until the arrival of the Red Army of the Caucasus, as the Soviet revolution that has swept Russian comes to Georgia. Told as a flashback from the present, as a French-Georgian man whose mother was Pascal's lover translates his memoirs for Pascal's niece.
A Chef in Love
1996
NRThe main character is an executioner from the 1930s who carries out the sentences of the Triumvirate. The gravity of his case follows him everywhere - in his family, among his acquaintances, and does not give him rest, until he himself becomes a victim of the system he serves.
The Performer
1994
8.0The film confession of a man born during World War 2, who grew up under Stalin and reached maturity during the Brezhnev stagnation period. An exploration of the problems of man's inner freedom.
Lucky Village
1992
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
The film depicts the story of Leonardo's death in grotesque ways. Relatives begin the traditional preparations for the funeral, while the "deceased" archaically "walks" through the city streets, watching with interest the preparations for his own funeral.
Leonardo
1993
7.0A story about a friendship between eleven years old Niniko and a dolphin named Metichara.
Metichara
1988
7.5Ordinary resort life is going on in the Georgian seaside town. But something new is already in the air - the 90s are on the threshold.
Swallows and Sparrows
1991
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გრანტუსი
1994
7.0The film tells the story of a little pony, Raru, who is rescued from danger by a little girl, Eli.
The Adventures of Eli and Raru
1986
NRReflection on the relationship between the world and humanity. A journey in the 20th century, in a specific time and specific space.
What won't pass, flies by you
1988
6.6A young filmmaker named Dato has no money to make a movie, so he hangs out drinking and brooding all day in the capital of the former Soviet republic, Georgia. He is also writing a screenplay. Excerpts from his script, shot in black-and-white, are cut into his story. All the stories, including the framing story about Dato and his friends, are interwoven so that they become one long narrative about contemporary life in Georgia.
Tbilisi-Tbilisi
2005
8.0The 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
NRThe main character of the film is a participant of The Abkhazian War, who, instead of protecting the integrity of Georgia, made profit from the war, then took refuge in Russia and returned to Tbilisi after three years...
Empty Space
2001
5.0If your romantic dreams don't come true on New Year's Day, don't worry, as Valentine's Day is just around the corner. You will easily believe this is possible if you watch the romance between Sandro and Nini unfolding in one of the nightclubs of modern-day Tbilisi.
Dream Town
2010
6.1Does air temperature really matter for fountains to be frozen or melt? One just need to stop and look around... It's a mosaic of several interrelated characters in search of their own happiness. It's about hopes and disapointments, betrayal and forgivness... and of course it's all about love...
The Summer of Frozen Fountains
2015
4.2A group of people who happen to be on the same bus try to get home on the New Year's Eve, but their bus is delayed by numerous obstacles, and the tensions grow.
The Nylon Christmas Tree
1985
NRDying, 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