Ariadna Shengelaia

Acting

Ariadna Shengelaia

Born 1937-01-13 · Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, USSR

Acting credits

Before Dinner poster
NR

One day from the social and personal life of the chief engineer of the plant.

Before Dinner

1980

Madmen's Trial poster
5.5

Germany, the 1930s. A young scientist, Professor Johannes Werner discovers rays of life-giving power. The scientist refuses to give up his invention for military use and, breaking the equipment, runs to the USA, where he hides for a long time under the name of Martini. One day, after being invited to a military industrial concern to see a new European invention, Werner meets his former pupil Huber. Huber, a traitor and fascist, has restored the professor's apparatus according to stolen plans and is demonstrating it as his own invention. Werner rejects the proposal for joint cooperation and, at a meeting in the hall of scientific associations, reveals his real name and resolutely reveals the criminal intentions of the revanchists.

Madmen's Trial

1961

I Want Him to Come poster
8.0

A young boy is experiencing a lot of problems in his life. But he also have one real friend.

I Want Him to Come

1981

White Nights poster
7.7

Based on the short story of the same name by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, it is about a young man living in Saint Petersburg who suffers from loneliness. He gets to know and falls in love with a young woman, but the love remains unrequited as the woman misses her lover, with whom she is finally reunited.

White Nights

1960

The Eccentrics poster
7.3

Ertaoz travels to the city with the intent to sell a chicken and pay off his father's debts. Upon arrival, he falls for the beautiful Margalita and decides to help her dispose of her ex-lover's body. However, at the cemetery, the lover–a policeman–unexpectedly regains consciousness and arrests Ertaoz and the chicken. Ertaoz is sentenced to ten years, while the bird receives seven. In prison, they meet an inventor who has built a flying machine that runs not on fuel but the power of love.

The Eccentrics

1974

Ajooba poster
5.6

The evil Vizier of Baharistan kills the royal family and takes power for himself. The real prince, who has survived his machinations, returns to his homeland to avenge his parents as a masked vigilante.

Ajooba

1991

I Love You, Life poster
7.0

Timofej Korneev is a fresh member of the Communist Party. He works as an engineer for Leningrad candy factory. Since most of its colleagues are young girls he soon finds himself in a love triangle. Moreover, there's a third girl trapped by a scheming Jehovah Witnesses sect. Will Timofej be able to stop the brainwashing?

I Love You, Life

1961

Here's a Story... poster
9.0

Two engineers being friends have a competition in a work and in a private life.

Here's a Story...

1987

Gorgon Head poster
8.5

The beginning of the 20s. In the North Caucasus, a gang led by the “Head of the Gorgon” is preparing a counter-revolutionary rebellion. The Red Army soldier Svetlov, returning home from the front, becomes a victim of the bandits who attacked him and finds himself in the hospital, the very center of the White Guard conspiracy.

Gorgon Head

1986

Goya: Or the Hard Way to Enlightenment poster
5.3

As a painter in the court of King Carlos IV, Goya has attained wealth and reputation. He believes in King and Church, yet he is also a Spaniard who dearly loves his people. This contradiction presents him with a dilemma.

Goya: Or the Hard Way to Enlightenment

1971

Babi Yar poster
NR

Melodrama about the mass shooting of Ukrainian Jewry at Babi Yar in Kyiv during the Second World War.

Babi Yar

2002

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

Be Careful, Grandma! poster
4.2

Young Lena becomes a chief manager of a workers' club. The problem is this club is not constructed yet and finishing it takes too much effort from a young girl. The solution is found by her grandmother and her 'old guards'. Look out Lena's enemies. Here's her grandma coming!

Be Careful, Grandma!

1961

Crucified Island poster
7.0

Based on true story of Georgian uprising on Texel. Insurrection of captured Soviet-Georgian soldiers conscripted into German Wehrmacht on Holland's Texel Island during German occupation of Holland

Crucified Island

1968

The White Caravan poster
5.6

A young shepherd abandons his family's traditional way of life, as well as his young love, when he succumbs to the allure of urban living.

The White Caravan

1964

Dreams of Love poster
3.3

This is a romantic biographical film about Franz Liszt. In a distinguished saloon of Paris, the unknown composer, Liszt, defeats the renown Thalberg at a piano competition. Through his playing, he wins the favours and later the hand of the countess D'Agoult. A daughter is born in their marriage, Cosima. Liszt is better and better known, Marie introduces him to the circle of artists.

Dreams of Love

1970

On the Side of Enguri poster
5.0

After the army, Emzar returns to Inguri. Gual, the top lumberjack, cuts young trees to surpass plans. Tamara, secretly in love with Gual, exposes his methods, straining his friendship with Emzar. At a festival, Emzar wins a horse race and Manol, Gual’s love, announces her marriage to Emzar. A year later, Gual is sullen. During a storm, he cuts young trees, pushing Emzar into a ravine. Manol goes into labour, and Gual carries her to the hospital, where she gives birth to a boy. He then rescues Emzar and brings him to the village, where Tamara meets him.

On the Side of Enguri

1961

Eugene Onegin poster
5.4

Eugene Onegin, a jaded young dandy from the big city of St. Petersburg, travels to the country to ingratiate himself into the affection of a dying uncle. There he meets the idealistic and romantic poet Vladimir Lensky, who introduces him to the daughters of a local landowner.

Eugene Onegin

1959

Golden Fleece poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Golden Fleece

1983

House on the Stone poster
NR

A Russian writer who left the fatherland fifteen years ago comes with his wife for three days to Moscow...

House on the Stone

1994

Talents and Admirers poster
NR

Negina, a popular but poor actress, receives lessons from her fiancé Meluzov. Prince Dulebov, intending to take advantage of the girl's dire circumstances, suggests sponsorship, gets refused and becomes spiteful. Despite the latter's intrigues, Negina's benefice performance is triumphant and she receives a large sum of money, part of which Dulebov himself has to provide to keep his face. Still, the entrepreneur refuses to prolong her contract. One after another ecstatic admires come to her expressing their affection, among them Narokov, Naluzov and Velikatov. She leaves honest but dull Meluzov and goes away with rich Velikatov, motivated not by greed but by the desire to work on stage, the only thing she is really in love with.

Talents and Admirers

1973

And Then I Said No poster
7.0

A group of boys are growing up in a small Russian town during the first years after WWII.

And Then I Said No

1973

Deadline at Dawn poster
9.0

The action takes place in America, where an unemployed man named Tony, who has come to seek his fortune, steals a large sum of money and meets a young woman at a dance hall. They decide to return the stolen money, only to find the owner murdered. Tony is accused of the murder and imprisoned.

Deadline at Dawn

1965

The Most Important Interview poster
NR

The film tells the story of journalistic morality in an analytical way. In this sense, the journalist must have a clear conscience and morality. He must find the answer to the question: "What is the meaning of life and what have I been able to do for people?" The protagonist of the film, Zaur is a radio journalist. Throughout the plot, he seeks the answer to this question, but finds it difficult to find the answer, and the complex contrasts of life confuse him.

The Most Important Interview

1971