Mikheil Chiaureli

Directing

Mikheil Chiaureli

Born — Died

1894-01-25 — 1974-10-31

Place of birth

Tiflis, Russian Empire

Known for

Directing

Credits

46 titles

Soviet, Georgian film actor, theater, film, animation director, animator, screenwriter, sculptor, teacher; People's Artist of the USSR (1948). Winner of five Stalin Prizes (1941, 1943, 1946, 1947, 1950). In 1909 he graduated from the Tiflis vocational school. In 1912 he graduated from the Tiflis School of Painting and Sculpture (now the Tbilisi Academy of Arts), a student of Yakov Nikoladze. Since 1915 he worked in the theaters of Tiflis, Kutaisi and Batumi as an actor, director and artist. In 1917, under the guidance of the historian Ekvtime Takaishvili, together with the futurist poet Ilya Zdanevich, the artists Lado Gudiashvili and Dimitri Shevardnadze, he was on an expedition to the sout…

Known for

Film credits

Behind the camera

The Fall of Berlin poster
5.0

Surrounded by a few party officials, Alexei Ivanov, a stakhanovist smelter, is decorated by Stalin. The "Little Father of the Peoples" takes this opportunity to invoke threats of war.... One day, war indeed breaks out. Bombs fall on the field where Alexei finds himself in the company of the schoolmistress Natacha, his fiancée. Alexei joins the Red Army and soon becomes a sergeant. Fighting rages and German troops advance. Natacha is arrested and deported. But the tide turns decisively with the German defeat at Stalingrad. Now the major offensive against Hitler can begin.

The Fall of Berlin

1950

The Fall of Berlin poster
5.0

Surrounded by a few party officials, Alexei Ivanov, a stakhanovist smelter, is decorated by Stalin. The "Little Father of the Peoples" takes this opportunity to invoke threats of war.... One day, war indeed breaks out. Bombs fall on the field where Alexei finds himself in the company of the schoolmistress Natacha, his fiancée. Alexei joins the Red Army and soon becomes a sergeant. Fighting rages and German troops advance. Natacha is arrested and deported. But the tide turns decisively with the German defeat at Stalingrad. Now the major offensive against Hitler can begin.

The Fall of Berlin

1950

Otar's Widow poster
5.4

The only son of Otari’s widow decides to serve in the serf owner’s house, and falls in love with the patron’s daughter for whom he can’t reveal his feelings to.

Otar's Widow

1957

Otar's Widow poster
5.4

The only son of Otari’s widow decides to serve in the serf owner’s house, and falls in love with the patron’s daughter for whom he can’t reveal his feelings to.

Otar's Widow

1957

Story of Young Girl poster
6.0

An Young, inexperiences girl had decided to live in the countryside, but she can't find her place among gloomy, unfriendly locals, Can't manage to do her job well. and decides to return to the city. However, her family thinks that her return would be inappropriate for their traditions.

Story of Young Girl

1960

Story of Young Girl poster
6.0

An Young, inexperiences girl had decided to live in the countryside, but she can't find her place among gloomy, unfriendly locals, Can't manage to do her job well. and decides to return to the city. However, her family thinks that her return would be inappropriate for their traditions.

Story of Young Girl

1960

Oil Jug poster
8.5

The poor man found a jug of butter and began to dream about how he would become rich now.…

Oil Jug

1972

Oil Jug poster
8.5

The poor man found a jug of butter and began to dream about how he would become rich now.…

Oil Jug

1972

Arsena poster
6.3

XIX century peasants' revolt and the life story of bandit Arsena Odzelashvili.

Arsena

1937

Arsena poster
6.3

XIX century peasants' revolt and the life story of bandit Arsena Odzelashvili.

Arsena

1937

The Great Dawn poster
5.8

In 1917, the people of the Russian Empire are no longer willing to fight Germany, but the bourgeois government of Alexander Kerensky is unwilling to defy its imperialist allies and stop the war. Only Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik Party is resolute in calling for peace. In the front, the soldiers of one battalion elect three delegates to travel to St. Petersburg with donations the troops collected for the Pravda newspaper: Gudushauri, Panasiuk and Ershov. The three arrive in the capital and describe the horrendous conditions in which the soldiers live to Joseph Stalin, Lenin's trusted aid and colleague. They join the Bolsheviks and take part in the storming of the Winter Palace, led by Stalin and Lenin. Stalin announces that the great dawn of revolution has broken.

The Great Dawn

1938

The Great Dawn poster
5.8

In 1917, the people of the Russian Empire are no longer willing to fight Germany, but the bourgeois government of Alexander Kerensky is unwilling to defy its imperialist allies and stop the war. Only Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik Party is resolute in calling for peace. In the front, the soldiers of one battalion elect three delegates to travel to St. Petersburg with donations the troops collected for the Pravda newspaper: Gudushauri, Panasiuk and Ershov. The three arrive in the capital and describe the horrendous conditions in which the soldiers live to Joseph Stalin, Lenin's trusted aid and colleague. They join the Bolsheviks and take part in the storming of the Winter Palace, led by Stalin and Lenin. Stalin announces that the great dawn of revolution has broken.

The Great Dawn

1938

First Cornet Streshnev poster
8.0

The events of the film take place during the First World War in 1917 on the Caucasian front. First cornet of the military orchestra Streshnev, not interested in politics faithfully serves his stern commander Colonel Garaburde.

First Cornet Streshnev

1928

The Unforgettable Year 1919 poster
5.5

A dramatization of the 1919 defense of Petrograd, focusing on Bolshevik leadership and the defeat of White Army forces during the Russian Civil War.

The Unforgettable Year 1919

1951

The Unforgettable Year 1919 poster
5.5

A dramatization of the 1919 defense of Petrograd, focusing on Bolshevik leadership and the defeat of White Army forces during the Russian Civil War.

The Unforgettable Year 1919

1951

The Vow poster
4.0

The story of Stalin and the Soviet people.

The Vow

1946

The Vow poster
4.0

The story of Stalin and the Soviet people.

The Vow

1946

Velikoye proshchaniye poster
5.5

March 9th, 1953. A gray, sad day. Clouds float low over the Kremlin towers. A city that unrecognizably grew, prettier and matured - this Moscow froze in solemn grief. The country escorts its father and leader, Joseph Stalin.

Velikoye proshchaniye

1953

You Can't See What You Have Seen poster
5.5

The young craftsman Gogia and the village girl Tasia fall in love with each other. Arriving in Tasia's village accompanied by a wedding procession, Gogia Can't find his bride anymore, Turns out by the order of Tasia's godmother, the duke's wife, she was taken to the duke's house as a servant. The elderly duke liked Tasia and decided to marry her. Gogia with the help of his friends, Karachokheli, tries to get his bride back.

You Can't See What You Have Seen

1965

You Can't See What You Have Seen poster
5.5

The young craftsman Gogia and the village girl Tasia fall in love with each other. Arriving in Tasia's village accompanied by a wedding procession, Gogia Can't find his bride anymore, Turns out by the order of Tasia's godmother, the duke's wife, she was taken to the duke's house as a servant. The elderly duke liked Tasia and decided to marry her. Gogia with the help of his friends, Karachokheli, tries to get his bride back.

You Can't See What You Have Seen

1965

How Mice Buried a Cat poster
7.0

The cat sits in the street dreaming. A group of three mice run out of the hole and boldly go to the cat. They tease him and grab his tail, but the cat seems completely absorbed in his dreams and does not notice them at all.

How Mice Buried a Cat

1969

How Mice Buried a Cat poster
7.0

The cat sits in the street dreaming. A group of three mice run out of the hole and boldly go to the cat. They tease him and grab his tail, but the cat seems completely absorbed in his dreams and does not notice them at all.

How Mice Buried a Cat

1969

Saba poster
5.3

A rework of Boris Sigal's play The Trial of Stepan Korolev. Set in Tbilisi rather than Leningrad is a morality tale about the hazards of alcohol consumption that is nonetheless not without humor.

Saba

1929

General and Daisies poster
9.0

A simple Polish man, Władek Lekowski, a former pilot, finds himself in exile after World War II due to a ridiculous accident. Poor and without a job or shelter, he sleeps on the beach. There, he meets and falls in love with Zosia, another Polish emigrant. Determined to get Zosia out of the bar where she works, performing “a little acrobatics and a little undressing,” Władek embarks on a mysterious mission as part of an airplane crew. During the flight, it becomes clear that he has fallen into the hands of militarists and the plane is supposed to drop a bomb on the Soviet Union. Realising that the fate of World War III now rests in his hands, Władek is forced to confront his own actions and the consequences of his choices.

General and Daisies

1963

George Saakadze poster
5.0

The film tells about the struggle of the Georgian people under the leadership of the great commander George Saakadze for a centralized state.

George Saakadze

1942

The Last Masquerade poster
5.8

The revolutionary struggle of the Georgian proletariat is the central theme of this story. The narrative follows the life and fate of a young revolutionary named Mito. After the Mensheviks disrupt a railway strike, Mito is sentenced to three years in prison, and his father is executed. During his time in prison, Mito shares a cell with an old Bolshevik, which transforms the hot-headed and unstable young man into a conscious Bolshevik. Soon, World War I begins, and Mito, who has just been released from prison, is sent to war.

The Last Masquerade

1934

The Last Masquerade poster
5.8

The revolutionary struggle of the Georgian proletariat is the central theme of this story. The narrative follows the life and fate of a young revolutionary named Mito. After the Mensheviks disrupt a railway strike, Mito is sentenced to three years in prison, and his father is executed. During his time in prison, Mito shares a cell with an old Bolshevik, which transforms the hot-headed and unstable young man into a conscious Bolshevik. Soon, World War I begins, and Mito, who has just been released from prison, is sent to war.

The Last Masquerade

1934

The Rooster Surgeon poster
7.0

The story of how a Rooster married a deaf-mute Chicken and, with the help of surgery, restored her speech.

The Rooster Surgeon

1970

The Rooster Surgeon poster
7.0

The story of how a Rooster married a deaf-mute Chicken and, with the help of surgery, restored her speech.

The Rooster Surgeon

1970

At the Last Hour poster
8.0

1918 year. One of the southern cities is captured by the Whites. An underground Bolshevik committee is preparing an armed uprising in the city.

At the Last Hour

1929

Out of the Way! poster
10.0

When the communists decide to renovate the city and try to demolish a badly positioned church, the religious citizens decide to fight for what is holy to them.

Out of the Way!

1931

Out of the Way! poster
10.0

When the communists decide to renovate the city and try to demolish a badly positioned church, the religious citizens decide to fight for what is holy to them.

Out of the Way!

1931

Offended Toys poster
NR

An animated film about cubs who did not know how to carefully play with their toys and constantly broke them.

Offended Toys

1949

The Resourceful Hare poster
NR

The story of how a cunning rabbit tricked a formidable lion.

The Resourceful Hare

1973

The Resourceful Hare poster
NR

The story of how a cunning rabbit tricked a formidable lion.

The Resourceful Hare

1973

Home poster
NR

A satirical animated film about the shortcomings in modern construction.

Home

1974

The Last Hill poster
7.5

A World War II era Soviet war film, focusing on the role of the Red Navy rather than land forces, and reviving the 1920s concept of the collective hero.

The Last Hill

1944

The Flea and the Ant poster
7.0

Based on a Georgian folk tale.

The Flea and the Ant

1971

The Flea and the Ant poster
7.0

Based on a Georgian folk tale.

The Flea and the Ant

1971