Writing

Dato Chubinishvili

Born 1945-01-16

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Le nid poster
NR

An 80-year-old lonely man feels sorry for the loss of his wife and the divorce of his son. One day, his old maid makes a hopeful dream. For her, that is for sure, the situation will be getting better soon.

Le nid

2011

Brides poster
6.9

Nutsa, a young mother, lives with her two children in a suburbs of Tbilisi in Georgia. Her partner Goga is in prison. They get married, so she gains the right to talk to him once a month in the visiting room on the other side of the glass. The ceremony is quick with a strange ambiance. Goga in prison, Nutsa with children outside, a routine sets in.

Brides

2014

The Step poster
6.8

Alexi 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

House of Others poster
8.0

Two families have physically survived the 'real' war, but are incapable of building a new life in peace. War continues in everyday life because the chaos is inside human beings.

House of Others

2016

The Time of Yellow Grass poster
NR

In a remote Tadjik mountain village, some shepherds come across a dead body. No one knows who he is or where he's from, but they soon discover that he is not a Muslim. As the news spreads, the people decide what should be done with this "infidel."

The Time of Yellow Grass

1991

No artwork available
9.0

The Soviet Union's rowing team becomes the champion at the World Championship. The team captain is a Georgian, who is awarded a trip by the All-Union Pioneer Organization — he is to lead a group of pioneers to Artek. He assumes the pioneers will be athletes and is shocked to discover that he is actually the leader of a girls' musical ensemble.

Mziuri

1973

Brother poster
6.7

Giorgi is 16 years old when he discovers another world through American films forbidden in all Soviet Union until then. Since the post-revolutionary chaos in his home town, Tbilisi, Giorgi has wanted to have succeeded by following the path of his idols: Tony Montana and Vito Corleone. He has almost reached his goal when he is confronted with a dilemma; how can he stop his little brother who is 12 years old to follow his path when he could become a famous pianist? All this in a world that only knows chaos.

Brother

2014

The Summer of Frozen Fountains poster
6.1

Does 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