Elguja Burduli

Acting

Elguja Burduli

Born 1941-04-01 · Tbilisi, USSR (Georgia)

Acting credits

Three Seconds poster
6.9

The story is set at the 1972 Munich Olympics where the U.S. team lost the basketball championship for the first time in 36 years. The final moments of the final game have become one of the most controversial events in Olympic history. With play tied, the score table horn sounded during a second free throw attempt that put the U.S. ahead by one. But the Soviets claimed they had called for a time out before the basket and confusion ensued. The clock was set back by three seconds twice in a row and the Russians finally prevailed at the very last. The U.S. protested, but a jury decided in the USSR’s favor and Team USA voted unanimously to refuse its silver medals. The Soviet players have been treated as heroes at home.

Three Seconds

2017

Sun of the Sleepless poster
5.7

The director dedicated this lyrical, epic film-confession to the memory of his father who was a doctor. The film’s protagonist, an ambulance doctor, conducts dangerous experiments in search of a vitally important vaccine. His wife believes in his work, though his daughter would not understand him. His son, who is absolutely unlike his father in character, is trying to protect him. But self-denial in the name of science proves too high a price. Just when he is on the verge of discovery, the doctor loses everything he has gathered as a result of his twenty-year-long work. This loss brings him even closer to his son. The shooting of the film continued for seven years (1985-1992), making it a metaphorical culmination of the Soviet cinematography and the Soviet way of life as a whole.

Sun of the Sleepless

1992

The Victory Will Be My Gift To You! poster
NR

«The Victory will be my gift to you!». This is the promise, which the 17-year old volunteer soldier makes to a very young hospital nurse, with whom he is madly in love. Many years later following a tragic accident the protagonist of our story will get hold of the volunteer’s diary. He lives is a bustling vicious city sparkling with steel and other expensive tinsel. He has achieved almost everything that a modern citizen might dream of – ha has successful career, a striking well-groomed wife and other attributes of his status. From time to time he shares his success formulas with hundreds of students of a business school dreaming of making a similar career.

The Victory Will Be My Gift To You!

2019

The Hostage poster
8.8

20-th years. In the mountainous regions of the Pamirs, a dangerous epidemic is rampant. There was sent a caravan with a vaccine, followed closely by the local bandits as the hostage in the caravan should be, as they learned, their leader. It is not known to them only one thing: the leader is a double ...

The Hostage

1984

Primary Russia poster
5.0

The film takes place in pre-Christian Russia, when Ratibor united the East Slavs into one army against the nomadic Khazars.

Primary Russia

1986

Hard to Be a God poster
6.0

Another planet in the period of medieval times. An employee of the institute of experimental history from Earth, who is send under the name of noble don Rumata of Estor as a spy with a mission to contact the local resident of the institute, arrives in the city of Arkanar. But the resident perishes under an unlucky attempt to make a palace coup, and Rumata have to take his place as the resident. Soon he meets all the horrors of the medieval society - a peasant war, palace coups, mass executions. To continue to be an indifferent watcher of all these horrors turns out to be simply impossible...

Hard to Be a God

1990

Hard to Be a God poster
6.0

Another planet in the period of medieval times. An employee of the institute of experimental history from Earth, who is send under the name of noble don Rumata of Estor as a spy with a mission to contact the local resident of the institute, arrives in the city of Arkanar. But the resident perishes under an unlucky attempt to make a palace coup, and Rumata have to take his place as the resident. Soon he meets all the horrors of the medieval society - a peasant war, palace coups, mass executions. To continue to be an indifferent watcher of all these horrors turns out to be simply impossible...

Hard to Be a God

1990

Dark Eyes poster
6.7

Aboard a ship early in the 20th-century, a middle-aged Italian tells his story of love to a Russian.

Dark Eyes

1987

No artwork available
10.0

Live writing is the plot and artistic principle of cinematic improvisation by Nana Djordjadze and Irakli Kvirikadze.

Postalioni

2003

Special Destination Force poster
4.0

Intelligence-diversionary group of athletes who know how to shoot snipers, run, jump, feel free in the water and under water, to withstand the monstrous load of hand-to-hand fights, will be able to reach the goal only going together, passing the task as a relay. Seven of them. Among them is a girl swimmer. It will be the most difficult, the last stage of the journey. The plot is based on the real facts of the great Patriotic war.

Special Destination Force

1978

Six Snowy Days poster
NR

A teenager finds himself against natural disasters. This fight forces him to become adult.

Six Snowy Days

1986

Sea of Desires poster
NR

It is one day in the life of two friends Moscovites. Their Moscow has got a real sea, the southern sun and home-made wine.

Sea of Desires

2010

Hatred poster
9.0

Bolshevik coup. Dying, old Bulyga decided to reconcile his sons, whose paths had diverged at the beginning of the revolution. That's why he called them. But the meeting of his brothers did not make him happy - they were deeply harboring enmity against each other. They buried their father. As soon as they left the village, a detachment broke into the village and began to rampage. And then the brothers rushed after the gang....

Hatred

1978

Varvara's Weddings poster
NR

Varvara was born in Petersburg at the beginning of the 20th century. And the first wedding she saw was her mother’s wedding. Years passed, the girl grew, matured, the world around changed ... Her generation had to go through many trials - revolution, military communism, NEP, war ... At the weddings that Varvara had a chance to visit, every era and love story was captured in snapshots a life.

Varvara's Weddings

2007

Jackal's Trap poster
10.0

Investigating the murder, a police officer comes across a circus performer who has a plan for a secret cave where, according to rumors, the valuables of Kurbashi Gayib-bek were hidden in the twenties. But it's not so easy to catch up with the criminal, one of the best participants in the horse attraction...

Jackal's Trap

1986

Close Enemy poster
1.0

Young woman decides to revenge her husband killers.

Close Enemy

2010

A Chef in Love poster
4.8

The 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

Rejected poster
NR

A fellow villager takes away Bakha's fiancée. In order to seek revenge, Bakha asks the Kists for help. The Bakha community decides to cut off the village due to its connection with the Urzhuls.

Rejected

1992

Spring is Passing poster
NR

The film describes the spiritual quest of a young hero whose prototype is georgian writer Guram Rcheulishvili.

Spring is Passing

1983

The Forgotten King poster
5.2

This is Historical / Mystic / Fantasy based on true and fiction events and includes some codes from the famous Georgian poem 'The Knights in the Tiger`s Skin' written by Shota Rustveli in the end of 12th century. Well known film producer Demetre Orbeli

The Forgotten King

2013

Bread, Gold, Gun poster
5.2

The Civil War. A foster home teacher is delivering grain for the starving children. Her accidental co-travelers are Chekist Gorbach, sailor Sasha, and stationmaster Zaytsev, who came into possession of three gold nuggets. And around them are the Reds, the Whites and the bandits.

Bread, Gold, Gun

1981

Forget the Word 'Death' poster
7.0

1920. Russian Civil War. Operation of GubCheka (Soviet police) to destroy one of the bands in Ukraine.

Forget the Word 'Death'

1979

Migrating Sparrows poster
6.0

A journey in a second-class passenger car in Soviet Georgia. People are squeezed into cramped seats, some of them trying to get comfortable on lying places - shelves. The main "entertainment" is an elegant blond man who claims he is an actor and has traveled the world. His stories mesmerize most of the passengers. Nevertheless, there is a man of stern appearance who differs from the masses. He travels with a trained sparrow hidden in his coat and does not believe the tales of the so-called actor, and openly declares it. The men get into a fight...

Migrating Sparrows

1980

Mirages of Love poster
7.3

"Mirages of Love" is a Soviet-Syrian film directed by Tolomush Okeyev about the fate of Mani, a medieval oriental master.

Mirages of Love

1987