Otar Koberidze

Acting

Otar Koberidze

Born 1924-12-17 · Tiflis, Georgian SSR, Transcaucasian SFSR, USSR [now Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia]

Otar Koberidze was born on 17 December 1924 in Tiflis, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR [now Tbilisi, Georgia]. He was an actor and director, known for Volshebnaya lampa Aladdina (1967), Mechte navstrechu (1963) and Elodet mokavshires (1979). He was previously married to Lia Eliava. He died on 9 March 2015 in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Acting credits

Rustam and Suhrab poster
5.0

Based on the famous story from the epic Shahnameh.

Rustam and Suhrab

1972

Mission in Kabul poster
NR

On the formation of young Soviet diplomacy and the struggle of the mission in Kabul with the internal reaction and representatives of the Western powers for the signing of the Cooperation Agreement. A Russian diplomatic mission was sent to Kabul. The friendly relations between Afghanistan and the young Soviet republic became a real threat to traditional British rule in the East.

Mission in Kabul

1971

Daisi poster
NR

Film opera with a love triangle on the backdrop of a foreign invasion.

Daisi

1971

The Red Tent poster
6.1

Torn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic expedition aboard the airship Italia.

The Red Tent

1969

Attack and Retreat poster
6.7

Chronicle of the unheralded and unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union by the Italian army during World War II.

Attack and Retreat

1964

The Little Prince poster
5.6

After a pilot is forced to make an emergency landing in the Sahara Desert, he befriends a young prince from outer space; the friendship conjures up stories of journeys through the solar system for the stranded aviator.

The Little Prince

1966

Trail of the Falcon poster
4.5

In the latter half of the 19th century, gold is discovered in the Black Hills, sacred land of the Lakota people. Gold diggers, profiteers and adventurers flock to the region. Among them is the hard-hearted land speculator Bludgeon, who tries to expel the Lakota using brutal methods. Lakota warriors retaliate, and soon the gold diggers' town becomes a battlefield.

Trail of the Falcon

1968

The Commissar poster
6.5

Klavdia Vavilova, a Red Army cavalry commissar, is waylaid by an unexpected pregnancy. She stays with a Jewish family to give birth and is softened somewhat by the experience of family life.

The Commissar

1967

The Light of Autumn poster
6.3

Vakhtang is talented artist but family liabilities don't allow him to work seriously. His wife Eka takes advantage of husband's trip out of town and exchanges her flat for a house in a colorful old city and sets up the artist's studio.

The Light of Autumn

1973

Encounter in Space poster
5.9

In the near future, a friendly exploratory mission to Earth from the planet Zenturia crashes on Mars's moon Phobos, and cosmonauts from the USSR are sent to the difficult and dangerous rescue.

Encounter in Space

1963

Wait for the Contact poster
6.5

During WWII in Ukraine both sides are desperately looking for the information about a forgotten weapons warehouse.

Wait for the Contact

1979

Children of the Sea poster
6.0

The film delves into the moral dilemmas of human relationships. An old sailor, the sole survivor of a ship that sank during the war, grapples with the weight of a moral compromise made many years ago. As he reflects on his past, he recalls his carefree life, filled with mistakes, and the crime he committed against the captain of the lost ship.

Children of the Sea

1964

Aladdin and His Magic Lamp poster
6.7

A young boy finds a magic lantern that contains a genie, and when he frees the genie he's granted three wishes. He uses the wishes to help the princess of Baghdad and her father fight off an evil sorcerer who's trying to take over the kingdom.

Aladdin and His Magic Lamp

1966

Tbilisi and Her Citizens poster
6.0

A sixteen novels about a life of a people in Tbilisi, capital of Georgia.

Tbilisi and Her Citizens

1976

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

Mameluke poster
6.5

In Arabic, “mameluke” means a white slave, a prisoner. In Egypt, this name was given to prisoners of war who had been sold into slavery from Georgia and other countries of the Caucasus. The action of this drama starts in Georgia in the late 18th century. Two friends are abducted and sold into slavery. One ends up in Egypt, the other - in Venice. Years later, they meet by the ancient pyramids, in the desert where a battle is going on between the armies of Bonaparte and Ali-bey, the ruler of Egypt. In a combat with a French officer, the Mameluke injures him. Falling from his horse onto the sand, the officer exclaims in Georgian: “Vai, nana!” (“Oh, mother!”). And the Mameluke recognizes in him a mate of his childhood games.

Mameluke

1958

The Tsar's Bride poster
7.0

Filmed adaptation of Rimsky-Korsakov's opera.

The Tsar's Bride

1965

Somebody Else's Children poster
6.6

Nato, a student, befriends two children in the street, a brother and a sister. She does not know that their father just broke up with his wife on the grounds that she was not able to find a common language with the children. Once he meets with Nato they fall in love, but their relationship does not last long because one day he meets his estranged wife by chance and goes off to be with her, abandoning both Nato and the children. Desperately Nato wants to take off, too, but realizes she can not leave the children alone.

Somebody Else's Children

1958

The Trap poster
NR

A dramatic story of a progressive journalist in America, whose professional honor depends entirely on a handful of political gangsters.

The Trap

1965

Legend of Siavush poster
5.0

The third part of Tajik trilogy.

Legend of Siavush

1977

Bashi-Achuki poster
6.6

The 17th century rebellion in Kakheti masterminded by Bidzina Cholokashvili gets about the whole Georgia. An Imeretian youth nicknamed as Bashi-Achuk is a real exterminator of the Persians. He attacks the Persian escort and sets free the Georgian women who were supposed to be locked up in the Shah’s harem. Bashi-Achuk’s twin sisters are among the rescued captives. Abdushahil, a Persian warrior who was defeated by Bashi-Achuk in wrestling, falls in love with Mzisa, Bashi-achuk’s sister. Mzisa brings Abdushahil to the camp of the Georgian rebels. Abdushahil learns that he is a Georgian too. As a child he was kidnapped and brought up in Persia. Abdushahil’s army gives up and the Georgians win the battle.

Bashi-Achuki

1956

I Tell the Truth poster
8.0

Otar Devidze, who is in exile, comes to Georgia to take over the inheritance left for his cousin through murder.

I Tell the Truth

1957

Operation "Wonderland" poster
8.0

In 1942, the Far North was home to an icebreaker, almost devoid of weapons. Despite this, it stood as a formidable force, blocking the path of a German cruiser. Led by Captain Anatoly Kacharava, a small detachment of sailors held back the enemy for over three hours. This daring act thwarted Operation Wunderland, a meticulously planned Nazi operation aimed at preventing a Soviet convoy from delivering essential supplies to Arkhangelsk.

Operation "Wonderland"

1989

Life Is Beautiful poster
6.9

Antonio is a retired aviator in an unnamed country ruled by a military junta which violently suppresses any free thought. He falls in love with a member of the resistance against the dictatorship. He is arrested but escapes with his love. The code word among the resisters is: ‘Life is Beautiful’.

Life Is Beautiful

1979

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