Georgi Tovstonogov

Directing

Georgi Tovstonogov

Born — Died

1915-09-28 — 1989-05-23

Place of birth

Tiflis, Russian Empire [now Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia]

Known for

Directing

Credits

27 titles

Georgi Tovstonogov was a highly acclaimed Soviet theatre director who led Leningrad's Gorky Bolshoi Drama Theater from 1956 until his death in 1989.

Known for

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds poster
NR

In a small house that used to be a vegetable shop, there is a mother with two daughters and an old, sick woman in her care. The mother's life has not been easy. At her father's request, she married someone she did not love.

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

1979

The Truth! Nothing But the Truth! poster
NR

About the trial of the October Revolution, which was organized in 1919 by the US Senate.

The Truth! Nothing But the Truth!

1969

Energetic People poster
10.0

The heroes of Shukshin's play are indeed energetic people in the full sense of the word. Jacks of all trades, quick-witted and dishonest, grabbers and thieves, who can be called businessmen of the era of socialism, for whom there was no use for their practical acumen and intelligence. Tovstonogov and the actors breathed true life into these characters.

Energetic People

1989

Khanuma poster
5.3

A classical romantic comedy set in Tbilisi, Georgia in the beginning of XX century.

Khanuma

1978

The Pickwick Club poster
NR

A middle-aged gentleman, yet utterly naive, sums up his life experience gained over years of traveling around good old England. The comical and absurd situations in which he and his friends constantly find themselves turn the play into a rare and truly timeless bestseller that entertains millions of viewers.

The Pickwick Club

1986

Privates poster
NR

The action takes place shortly before the Victory in the ruins of Berlin. But it is not the military actions that are at the center of what is happening, but the fate of people, their sorrows and hopes. A young first-year Dandelion, drafted in the last days of the war, suffers completely childishly from the fact that he will not get military glory. His older friend, Dervoed, in front of whom his wife and son died, is suffering unable to cope with the mental pain. In contrast, the Rebel, who was taken to the military enlistment office right from his own wedding, is nervous and fierce. A real "war dog", he only knows how to kill. What to do when the war is over, where to put yourself?

Privates

1985

Film credits

1970s · 3 titles

Behind the camera

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds poster
NR

In a small house that used to be a vegetable shop, there is a mother with two daughters and an old, sick woman in her care. The mother's life has not been easy. At her father's request, she married someone she did not love.

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

1979

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds poster
NR

In a small house that used to be a vegetable shop, there is a mother with two daughters and an old, sick woman in her care. The mother's life has not been easy. At her father's request, she married someone she did not love.

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

1979

The Truth! Nothing But the Truth! poster
NR

About the trial of the October Revolution, which was organized in 1919 by the US Senate.

The Truth! Nothing But the Truth!

1969

The Truth! Nothing But the Truth! poster
NR

About the trial of the October Revolution, which was organized in 1919 by the US Senate.

The Truth! Nothing But the Truth!

1969

Energetic People poster
10.0

The heroes of Shukshin's play are indeed energetic people in the full sense of the word. Jacks of all trades, quick-witted and dishonest, grabbers and thieves, who can be called businessmen of the era of socialism, for whom there was no use for their practical acumen and intelligence. Tovstonogov and the actors breathed true life into these characters.

Energetic People

1989

Khanuma poster
5.3

A classical romantic comedy set in Tbilisi, Georgia in the beginning of XX century.

Khanuma

1978

Khanuma poster
5.3

A classical romantic comedy set in Tbilisi, Georgia in the beginning of XX century.

Khanuma

1978

The Pickwick Club poster
NR

A middle-aged gentleman, yet utterly naive, sums up his life experience gained over years of traveling around good old England. The comical and absurd situations in which he and his friends constantly find themselves turn the play into a rare and truly timeless bestseller that entertains millions of viewers.

The Pickwick Club

1986

Privates poster
NR

The action takes place shortly before the Victory in the ruins of Berlin. But it is not the military actions that are at the center of what is happening, but the fate of people, their sorrows and hopes. A young first-year Dandelion, drafted in the last days of the war, suffers completely childishly from the fact that he will not get military glory. His older friend, Dervoed, in front of whom his wife and son died, is suffering unable to cope with the mental pain. In contrast, the Rebel, who was taken to the military enlistment office right from his own wedding, is nervous and fierce. A real "war dog", he only knows how to kill. What to do when the war is over, where to put yourself?

Privates

1985

The Story of a Horse poster
NR

Based on Leo Tolstoy's story "Holstomer" staged by the Leningrad State Academic Bolshoi Drama Theater named after M. Gorky.

The Story of a Horse

1989

Uncle Vanya poster
8.0

A television film based on the famous production by the Bolshoi Drama Theater is yet another interpretation of Chekhov’s “boring story” — about the life of an intelligent and conscientious Russian man, Ivan Petrovich Voynitsky, “lost” in the rural backwater.

Uncle Vanya

1987

Uncle Vanya poster
8.0

A television film based on the famous production by the Bolshoi Drama Theater is yet another interpretation of Chekhov’s “boring story” — about the life of an intelligent and conscientious Russian man, Ivan Petrovich Voynitsky, “lost” in the rural backwater.

Uncle Vanya

1987

Balalaykin and K poster
5.0

The performance of the Sovremennik Theater directed by G. A. Tovstonogov.

Balalaykin and K

1973

Esop poster
10.0

The wealthy slave trader Xanthus, who imagines himself to be a great poet and philosopher, buys the slave Aesop, a writer of fables. Soon Xanthus becomes famous, but everyone understands who the true author of his new works is.

Esop

1961

Esop poster
10.0

The wealthy slave trader Xanthus, who imagines himself to be a great poet and philosopher, buys the slave Aesop, a writer of fables. Soon Xanthus becomes famous, but everyone understands who the true author of his new works is.

Esop

1961

Last of the Red Hot Lovers poster
NR

The events take place in New York in the apartment of the mother of the owner of a seafood restaurant, Barney Cashman. The man is already over 40. One fine day he thinks that he has lived a gray, boring life: he has never cheated on his wife, never got into a fight, or gotten involved in any adventure.

Last of the Red Hot Lovers

1989

Last of the Red Hot Lovers poster
NR

The events take place in New York in the apartment of the mother of the owner of a seafood restaurant, Barney Cashman. The man is already over 40. One fine day he thinks that he has lived a gray, boring life: he has never cheated on his wife, never got into a fight, or gotten involved in any adventure.

Last of the Red Hot Lovers

1989

On the Road of Immortality poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

On the Road of Immortality

1957

On the Road of Immortality poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

On the Road of Immortality

1957

The Philistines poster
8.0

Television performance, tragicomedy based on the play of the same name by M. Gorky by the Leningrad BDT named after M. Gorky (first staged in 1966).

The Philistines

1971

The Philistines poster
8.0

Television performance, tragicomedy based on the play of the same name by M. Gorky by the Leningrad BDT named after M. Gorky (first staged in 1966).

The Philistines

1971