David Abashidze
Acting
Biography
David "Dodo" Abashidze was a Soviet Georgian film actor and director. He appeared in 50 films between 1954 and 1988.
Born: April 29, 1924
Place of Birth: Tiflis, Georgian SSR, Transcaucasian SFSR, USSR
Known For
Au-u!
The film comprises three cinematic novellas: (1) “And They Arrived at the Peasant’s Hut… or the Adventures of Writer Senya in Search of the Hidden Word,” in which writer Senya draws inspiration for his rural novels from his housekeeper Yermolayevna’s tales; (2) “The Song, or How the Great Louarsab Organized a Choir,” where a city visitor attempts to form a choir of centenarian elders in a Georgian mountain village; (3) “What Is Our Life?! or What Is Our Life?!”—during a musical reenactment of pre-Revolutionary France, a drunken actor’s tardiness forces King Louis XIV (also the theater committee chairman) and the cast to improvise the play’s ending.
Small Town of Anara
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.
Mission
Agricultural machinery design engineer Mikhail Shcherbakov goes to the countryside instead of taking a vacation. The tractor designed by him does not work in one of the collective farms. Circumstances force him to stay much longer than he expected. Here he meets Klava, who works in the apiary. And far from being on official business, the engineer remains on the collective farm.
Matsi Khvitia
It’s about a 13th-century Georgian legendary avenger, the noble robber Matsi Khvitia, who bravely fought against the princes’ arbitrary rule.
Pirosmani
A biography of the Georgian primitive artist Nikoloz Pirosmanishvili (1862–1918), better known as Pirosmani, who died of starvation and sold his paintings to bars and restaurants for food and drink. The film experiments with color control techniques based on the painter’s style.
The Legend of Suram Fortress
A film version of a well-known Georgian folk-tale. A young boy has to be immured into the walls of a fortress in order to stop it from crumbling to pieces.
Light In Our Windows
Alexander, a war veteran, was appointed as a chief for the young people during the construction of Engurhesi. They are also in the dormitory together. Alexander's experience, hard work, decency and humanity will become an example for boys who come directly from the school desk to construction.
Chrichina
A young, funny, lovely, kind girl from country-side is named Marine but she is nicknamed as Chrichina (Dragonfly). She is very popular in her village because of her happy-go-lucky temperament and singing songs. She lost a chance to study at University, fell in love with handsome, intelligent architect from the city. She must prove to everyone that she is useful for something, and not only for singing "aba deli dela..." every day. Everyone realizes that they are not very suitable for each other, but the young architect can't get her out of his head.
Great Green Valley
A group of geologists discover oil under the fields where Sosana, the aged and anachronistic father, raises his herd with his unhappy wife, her friend and his growing boy with whom he displays a wonderful rapport. The land is invaded by big machinery that feels remarkably alien to the serene and natural aesthetic of the valley. The family all enjoys the pleasures and storytelling capacity a slide projector grants them, but it too feels distinctly out of place in a town with no plumbing.
Magdana's Donkey
This chamber drama is set in Georgia on the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. A simple peasant family makes its living by selling yogurt which the Magdany widow takes every morning to the town market. Once, in their mother’s absence, the children – six-year-old Mikho and three-year-old Kato – found an abandoned donkey on a road leading to their village. The foundling was fed, tended, and the moment the donkey opened its big, tender eyes, it was named “Lurdja”, which means “blue-eyed”. Surrounded by love and care, the donkey became a big help in the poor household. But this idyll was not to last long…
Filmography
as Giorgi Zakareishvili
as Osman-Agha / Simon
as Rezi
as Kvarkavre Tutaberi
as Simoni
as Arkipo Sethuri
as Varlam
as Gabrieli
as Варлаам Кипанидзе («Песня или как великий Луарсаб хор организовывал»)
as Irakliy Razmadze prokuror
as Baker, Mikho
as Jasoni
as Vakhtang
as Nestor Kalandarishvili
as Niko
as Head of Collective Farm
as Aleksandre
as Kinto
as Mamamze Eristavi
as Bachua
as Prince Valekh Vakhvari
as Shavleg
as Sosana
as Aluda
as Omar Margania
as Rezo
as Head of Police
as Gocha
as Yagvira
as AslanI
as Gedeoni
as shakhter Bochi Morchadze (dubliruyet Konstantin Tyrtov)
as დოდო
as Gogi
as Ushangi
as Abdushahili
as Gabo
as Bichiko, Driver