
Acting
Levan Abashidze
Acting credits
5.2The script is based on Borges's story "The Gospel according to St. Mark".
The Guest
1987
9.0One day in the life of 29 year old Levan, who is preparing to go travelling around the world.
No, Pal
1993
6.8Alexi leaves the house of his father and stepmother and rents an apartment. He wants to be independent and find his place in the world. But no basic changes ensue – he has the same friends, with the same trivial conversations and the same inactivity. Only the death of his favorite teacher, to whom the young man felt very close, really changes his habitual way of life. Alexi makes a decision: he refuses a place at a research institute and leaves for a teaching job at a village school, the same school his mentor used to work at.
The Step
1987
NRThe tradition of bloodletting remains insurmountable in many nations today and ruins people's lives.
Zvarak
1990
10.0The film recounts a meeting between veterans of the WWII at the site of former battles.
Not Every Comet Dies Down
1982
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
"Slightly absurdist sketch of a Dutch female reporter who gets stuck in a Georgia devoid of petrol." - IFFR
Rose, Violet & Lily
1992
5.5The year is 1907. The young composer Nikusha sets out on a journey over the villages of Central Georgia to record folk songs. For this he provides himself with a map of the places he would like to visit. His accidental co-traveler is Leko Tatasheli who is convinced that the composer is on a mission of the revolutionary committee and his map is the plan of a future uprising…
Voyage of the Young Composer
1985
7.0In order to escape from the dishonesty and falsehood of the city life, Nika decides to enter the school of the mountain village. But in the village too Nika sees nothing but the tedium and hopelessness. Only the howling of the wolves is heard around.
Anemia
1987
NRTbilisi at the end of the 80s, its life, the tense expectation of changes
City Life
1988
6.0This somber story of love lost forever is set against the backdrop of the changes that Communism brought to the state of Georgia in the former USSR after the 1917 Revolution. Eva and Archil are deeply in love and they pledge to be with each other always. After they marry, Archil dies suddenly and Eva is left alone and childless. Along comes the ruthless Spiridon who romances Eva and marries her - though his cold and cruel spirit break Eva's naturally buoyant self, until she sullenly eats alone, and avoids intimacy with her husband as much as possible. They adopt a daughter, who does not take sides between her glum mother and silent father. When the Communist cadres enter their village to promote the ideals of the October revolution, Eva starts to warm to her husband a little because he joins in that movement. Then her husband commits the fatal error of revealing a previous crime - an error that will later cause their grown daughter to question her parents' strange behavior.
A Day Longer Than Night
1983
6.4In the hot summer of 1917, the nineteen-year-old peasant Georgy Zakareishvili left his village in search of work and, settling on a French ship, soon found himself in Paris, where he married a Frenchwoman. Modest wealth, beloved wife, sons and a faithful friend helped him to endure separation from his homeland. When the opportunity came to his homeland, George was already old and could not postpone the upcoming meeting with his native Georgia. He tried to convey his love to his grandson George: he sang folk songs, taught Georgian, talked about the people of his village. And now, in fulfillment of his grandfather’s orders, George the Younger took his ashes to his homeland...
Roots
1987
10.0A detachment of Red Army soldiers is ambushed, from where only the boy can escape.
The Secret of the Golden Breguet
1988
9.0Tbilisi, 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
5.4Sophiko, a well-known journalist, seems to be more close to many of her respondents when they need her advice than to her family members. All engrossed in her work, she suddenly finds out that she is losing her husband who has started a love affair with another woman. Of course, it strikes her badly but life never lets her to concentrate on her personal problems.
Some Interviews on Personal Matters
1978