Directing

Irakli Kvirikadze

Born

1939-07-12 (87)

Place of birth

Batumi, Georgian SSR, USSR [now Georgia]

Known for

Directing

Credits

33 titles

Known for

Moscow, I Love You! poster
4.8

18 directors, 18 novels, 18 short stories about Moscow...

Moscow, I Love You!

2010

Luna Papa poster
6.3

The unborn child of Mamlakat is telling her story. She is 17, beautiful and vivacious, and dreaming secretly of becoming an actress. She lives with her father and brother in a small village in Central Asia. One night she is seduced by an actor from a travelling troupe, who poses as a friend of Tom Cruise, and gets her pregnant. She tries to abort, but her father and brother become determined to find the seducer, setting in motion a cascade of comic adventures.

Luna Papa

1999

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

27 Missing Kisses poster
5.5

A young woman's passion has a remarkable effect on a Russian village in this comedy-drama with fantasy elements. Sybill is a teenager who is sent to a small town in the country to spend the summer with her aunt. Despite her tender age, Sybill is ripe and sexually aware, and while the initial object of her attention is Alexander, a widower in his early 40s, she instead pairs up with Mickey, Alexander's teenage son. Mickey quickly becomes infatuated with Sybill and is more than happy to indulge her fondness for outdoor lovemaking. Between Sybill's carefree, youthful sensuality and the appearance of Emmanuelle at the local movie house, suddenly love and lust are in bloom all over town.

27 Missing Kisses

2000

The Boundaries poster
5.0

When in 1977 these guys came to Moscow from Pyatigorsk, for two they had 160 rubles and a can of cornel jam. And Muscovites contemptuously called them the limit. Years passed, and the brilliant abilities of the young children were realized. Misha became a bank employee, encrypting all documentation on a computer, Ivan - a criminal hacker, which no computer protection could resist. Fulfilling the tasks of mafia structures and penetrating the banking network, Ivan helped customers rob banks, thereby gaining unquestioned authority in the criminal world.

The Boundaries

1995

Rasputin poster
4.8

A group of Russian noblemen want to maintain the monarchy and plan to kill Rasputin.

Rasputin

2013

Film credits

Behind the camera

Moscow, I Love You! poster
4.8

18 directors, 18 novels, 18 short stories about Moscow...

Moscow, I Love You!

2010

Moscow, I Love You! poster
4.8

18 directors, 18 novels, 18 short stories about Moscow...

Moscow, I Love You!

2010

Luna Papa poster
6.3

The unborn child of Mamlakat is telling her story. She is 17, beautiful and vivacious, and dreaming secretly of becoming an actress. She lives with her father and brother in a small village in Central Asia. One night she is seduced by an actor from a travelling troupe, who poses as a friend of Tom Cruise, and gets her pregnant. She tries to abort, but her father and brother become determined to find the seducer, setting in motion a cascade of comic adventures.

Luna Papa

1999

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

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

27 Missing Kisses poster
5.5

A young woman's passion has a remarkable effect on a Russian village in this comedy-drama with fantasy elements. Sybill is a teenager who is sent to a small town in the country to spend the summer with her aunt. Despite her tender age, Sybill is ripe and sexually aware, and while the initial object of her attention is Alexander, a widower in his early 40s, she instead pairs up with Mickey, Alexander's teenage son. Mickey quickly becomes infatuated with Sybill and is more than happy to indulge her fondness for outdoor lovemaking. Between Sybill's carefree, youthful sensuality and the appearance of Emmanuelle at the local movie house, suddenly love and lust are in bloom all over town.

27 Missing Kisses

2000

The Boundaries poster
5.0

When in 1977 these guys came to Moscow from Pyatigorsk, for two they had 160 rubles and a can of cornel jam. And Muscovites contemptuously called them the limit. Years passed, and the brilliant abilities of the young children were realized. Misha became a bank employee, encrypting all documentation on a computer, Ivan - a criminal hacker, which no computer protection could resist. Fulfilling the tasks of mafia structures and penetrating the banking network, Ivan helped customers rob banks, thereby gaining unquestioned authority in the criminal world.

The Boundaries

1995

Rasputin poster
4.8

A group of Russian noblemen want to maintain the monarchy and plan to kill Rasputin.

Rasputin

2013

Kvevri poster
5.7

Gogia brings home a kvevri (georgian wine vessel) made in Imereti in Kakheti . Kvevri brought from a distance with a sledgehammer breaks carelessly. Gogia takes craftsman Abesalom home, who repairs the kvevri, but he himself will get stuck inside of it .

Kvevri

1971

Small Town of Anara poster
8.0

Tadeoz Toroshelidze is the most reknowned wine drinker in the whole area. Once he even won a drinking horn in a competition that has rested in his house ever since.

Small Town of Anara

1978

Small Town of Anara poster
8.0

Tadeoz Toroshelidze is the most reknowned wine drinker in the whole area. Once he even won a drinking horn in a competition that has rested in his house ever since.

Small Town of Anara

1978

Father poster
5.4

The war is over, but instead of happiness and joy Alexei Ivanov feels bitterness and fear. We have to go home, but do his children remember him, whom he left as kids?

Father

2007

Robinsonade, or My English Grandfather poster
5.4

The film tells a strange story, in flashback, about a British Telegraph Company’s engineer named Hughes appearing in a distant Guria village. Falling in love with the beautiful Anna, the Englishman became the enemy of her brother, Bolshevik Nestor. Both Hughes and Nestor were shot dead by Lavrenty Mgeladze, who had once had everything, but later was dispossessed and driven out of the village. The old Anna told that story to a young composer who recorded the music: “My dear homeland, why are you weeping?…”

Robinsonade, or My English Grandfather

1987

Listen Papa! poster
NR

This is a letter of hatred and love of a son to his father, where he talks about everything that he could not say before.

Listen Papa!

2019

Bo-Bo poster
NR

An evil plane dropped an atomic bomb, the bomb's name is Bo-Bo. Before falling to the ground, Bo-Bo discovers a butterfly that shows the beauty of the earth, he will understand that this beauty cannot be destroyed...

Bo-Bo

1985

The Swimmer poster
3.7

The tale of a 20th century family line of swimmers who all attempt to swim some near-impossible distance in the Black Sea.

The Swimmer

1981

The Swimmer poster
3.7

The tale of a 20th century family line of swimmers who all attempt to swim some near-impossible distance in the Black Sea.

The Swimmer

1981

No artwork available
NR

The editing film poem of Irakli Kvirikadze, inspired by the legendary fates and creative discoveries of Andrei Tarkovsky and his congenial artists of the “Soviet Renaissance”. The film tells about the project of the Museum AZ, presented in the Franco Zeffirelli Foundation in Florence. The project was a visual poetic dedication to Andrei Tarkovsky and his contemporaries - non-conformist artists.

New Flight To Solaris

2019

No artwork available
NR

The editing film poem of Irakli Kvirikadze, inspired by the legendary fates and creative discoveries of Andrei Tarkovsky and his congenial artists of the “Soviet Renaissance”. The film tells about the project of the Museum AZ, presented in the Franco Zeffirelli Foundation in Florence. The project was a visual poetic dedication to Andrei Tarkovsky and his contemporaries - non-conformist artists.

New Flight To Solaris

2019

Scratch poster
NR

Aliaskar Fatkhullin's social drama short for Emil Loteanu's workshop.

Scratch

1986

A Chef in Love poster
4.9

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

Stealing Tarantino poster
NR

A few Russian guys are trying to steal a new film by Quentin Tarantino, but not only to sell it, but to show the never-before seen film on a wedding of their friends. Certainly a lot of interesting stuff happens to them on their quest for the movie.

Stealing Tarantino

2006

Rusty Knight poster
NR

A parable about love and chivalry in which a mechanical bird sacrifices itself to save a living bird that it has fallen in love with.

Rusty Knight

1984

Wolf's Ravine poster
8.0

The poor wretch Abesalom is in love with beautiful Lisa. But her family has other plans. They want her to tie the knot with Ilja, the director of a bra-factory. Abesaloms only chance to come up her families expectation and to be with Lisa is to become rich. Luck is with the lovers and Abesalom wins the lottery. In order to receive his fortune he has to travel to the city. On the way he loses his hat and with it the sewn in lottery ticket. The wind carries both to an enchanted wolf's ravine. Losing his chance to ever be with Lisa, Abesalom also seems to lose senses. While Lisa is forced by her family to marry Ilja, Abesalom goes through an amazing metamorphosis...

Wolf's Ravine

2003

No artwork available
3.0

Two young students - Sonya and Ippolit - are spending their holiday time in sunny Greece. But not everything is going as planned.

Greek Holiday

2005

No artwork available
NR

A Bondo Shoshitaishvili Cartoon

The Talent

1981

Andersen. Life Without Love poster
4.4

Drama based on life and love of a famous Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen.

Andersen. Life Without Love

2006

A Monster or Someone Else... poster
10.0

Forty-year-old opera chorister Pulat Mukhamedzhanov, stuck in the elevator of a multi-storey building, remembers his family and friends, the best and worst qualities that he inherited from them and, of course, hopes for salvation...

A Monster or Someone Else...

1988

The Return of Olmets poster
10.0

Three brothers were waiting for their father Olmes to return from the war, imagining him as a hero, like the former circus performer Anuar, who had actually fallen from grace and started stealing. When Olmes returned, the children were disappointed by his appearance, but during the kokpar game, he defeated Anuar, who was trying to cheat.

The Return of Olmets

1984

The Return of Olmets poster
10.0

Three brothers were waiting for their father Olmes to return from the war, imagining him as a hero, like the former circus performer Anuar, who had actually fallen from grace and started stealing. When Olmes returned, the children were disappointed by his appearance, but during the kokpar game, he defeated Anuar, who was trying to cheat.

The Return of Olmets

1984