Ramaz Chkhikvadze

Acting

Ramaz Chkhikvadze

Born 1928-02-28 · Tbilisi, Georgia

Ramaz Chkhikvadze was a Georgian film and theater actor.[1] First appearing in the 1954 film The Dragonfly (Chrichina), he starred in over 60 films during his career.[2][3] He won the award for Best Actor at the 8th Moscow International Film Festival for his role in The Saplings. Ramaz Chkhikvadze caused a sensation when he appeared on stage as Richard III at the 1979 Edinburgh Festival in a production of Shakespeare's play by the Rustaveli Theatre Company of Tbilisi, Georgia, then still part of the Soviet Union.

Acting credits

Arevik poster
8.0

Arevik is a young woman taking care of the children of a widower who is in jail, due to her testimony.

Arevik

1978

19th-Century Georgian Chronicle poster
6.7

A poetized chronicle of the events taking place in one of the Georgian villages in the late 19th century, when, to save a forest, the innumerous intelligentsia could rally the people and oppose the industrialists…

19th-Century Georgian Chronicle

1979

A Necklace for My Beloved poster
5.1

Three guys are living in a Dagestan aul, and all three are in love with the blue-eyed Serminaz. According to a mountaineers’ tradition, a young man seeking the hand and the heart of a beloved girl has to make her a present that she would remember for the rest of her life. The friends set out in search of the special gift…

A Necklace for My Beloved

1971

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

სოლო სალამურისათვის

1975

In August of 1944 poster
6.3

The movie is set in Belarus, where a team of counter-intelligence officers is given only three days to find a German radio operator posing as a Soviet soldier, behind soviet lines, on the eve of a major offensive.

In August of 1944

2001

No artwork available
10.0

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

Postalioni

2003

Love at First Sight poster
5.8

Murad Rasulov, a simple 16-year-old Azerbaijani, raised in Tbilisi, and a passionate fan of football, falls in love for the first time in his life with Anya, a Belarusian girl who is studying at the same institute in Baku, two years older than him. The difference in age and the conflict of cultures becomes an obstacle in the way of a young man whom no one helps, in a hopeless, desperate struggle for love.

Love at First Sight

1975

The Rainbowmaker poster
4.7

Datho has been innocent in prison for many years. When he comes home nobody wants him. His angelic wife Elene has fun with a fire-eater. The two children imagined the father as a hero, not as a sorrowful knight. But everything changes when Datho can freeze his enemies in the bathtub or he calls for rain so that they remain stuck in the mud.

The Rainbowmaker

2008

The Wishing Tree poster
7.1

Marita arrives at a small village in Georgia to live with her aunt. She meets a poor young lad, Gedia, and falls in love with him. But her relatives are determined to marry the girl off to a local rich man…

The Wishing Tree

1976

Ashik Kerib poster
6.3

Wandering minstrel Ashik Kerib falls in love with a rich merchant's daughter, but is spurned by her father and forced to roam the world for a thousand and one nights. Now presumed dead by those he loves, he performs for the poor and unfortunate on his journeys through the wilderness.

Ashik Kerib

1988

Return of Nasreddin Hodja poster
7.0

An ingenuous film about the eternal, about the meaning of human life on earth. In a word, about what has been said a thousand times and a thousand times retold. The famous hero of Eastern legends, Hodja Nasreddin - a serious joker, thinker and truth-seeker - by the will of the authors became a foster brother and a friend of youth, no less famous, but in everything opposite to him - the tyrant and autocrat Timur Tamerlane.

Return of Nasreddin Hodja

1990

The Way Home poster
4.8

The film is set in southern Georgia during Ottoman control, where inhabitants, who were driven from their homes due to enemy invasions, try to return home through different means. One of these inhabitants is the young scholar Antimoz.

The Way Home

1981

Hands Up! poster
8.5

A funny tale about a group of children fighting the evil sorcerer.

Hands Up!

1981

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

Melodies of the Vera Quarter poster
6.5

This musical is based on old Georgian vaudevilles and plays. The early 20th century. Old Tiflis is in confusion and turmoil. A mysterious fairy is helping the poor Pavle’s family: real wood is burning in his old, neglected fireplace, wherein a pot with meat would suddenly appear. The good fairy is impersonated by laundress Vardo who helps not only the poor Pavle, but other families in this quarter as well. Vardo is known to many people in the town, but no one ever suspected that she was capable of performing miracles. The film’s colorful folk melodies, merry songs and fiery dances leave no viewer indifferent. Starring in the leading role is the great Georgian actress Sofiko Chiaureli.

Melodies of the Vera Quarter

1973

Clicks poster
NR

Screen adaptation of F. Gorenshtein's satirical stories. A short story film allegorically depicting the life of Soviet Georgia.

Clicks

1973

No artwork available
5.0

Zaza Nakashidze is imprisoned for a murder he never committed. While in jail he tries to prove his innocence and with other prisoners, real murderers and thieves, dreams of freedom.

White Flags

1990

Comrade Stalin Goes to Africa poster
5.4

A mockumentary mixing actual private footage of Stalin with reconstructed dramatic sequences featuring doubles.

Comrade Stalin Goes to Africa

1991

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

Cinema poster
6.7

At the end of the 20th century, the son of a distinguished family, Sosiko Cholokashvili, became interested in cinematography, a field unknown to the public. Despite his inexperience, financial difficulties, and disappointment, one of the first enthusiasts of Georgian cinema recorded many shots depicting the appearance and existence of old Tbilisi on tape.

Cinema

1977

I'm Ready to Take a Challenge poster
5.0

A young poet at a social ball invited a beautiful stranger to dance and received a challenge to a duel from a jealous husband. The duel took place, but the bullet flying to the poet's heart stuck into a gold coin that ended up in his jacket pocket. The inspired poet wrote a number of short stories about the voyage of the golden one, the characters of which are a cheerful sailor, a greedy innkeeper, his wife and her lover...

I'm Ready to Take a Challenge

1984

Mole poster
7.7

Sandro Koridze, the manager of the trust, is a bureaucrat, flatterer, and coward who prioritises his own well-being. One day, while walking outside the city, he accidentally hits a calf with his car. Terrified, believing he has killed someone, Sandro flees into the mountains.

Mole

1962

Ranina poster
9.0

The cartoon is based on the motifs of the Georgian folk tale "half-of-handfuler" ("მუჭანახევარა"). How society forces a person to sing the way they think is right.

Ranina

1974

The Herdboy poster
4.8

The tale of how a greedy gentleman took away a cow from a young herdboy, and the latter tricked her back.

The Herdboy

1979