Gigola Talakvadze
Acting
Biography
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Born: March 24, 1914
Known For
The Tent of Wisdom
The film is based on the fables of Sulkhan-Saba Orbelia
Jaqo's dispossessed
Stage play of Mikheil Javakhishvili's "Jaqo's dispossesed"
Data Tutashkhia
A just man becomes an outlaw. He is pursued by the police over the years, while he tries to fight the injustice in the world, but he can't figure out the minds of his fellow men, and is often misunderstood.
To Be Unwanted
Voldis Viters is released after seven years in prison. He is 46 years old and has no family or job. Some of his old friends have abandoned the life of crime, and policeman Leo Aleksandrs, as well as the beautiful taxi driver Irēna, try to persuade Voldis to forget the past and move on. But when the crime boss Teksis proposes a plan to rob a jewelry store, Voldis agrees, thinking this will be his last crime before starting a new life. Marking the pinnacle of its director's filmography, To Be Unwanted is a psychological drama that centers not on a single crime or its investigation but on the emotional collapse of the criminal as he realizes that his amoral lifestyle has rendered him redundant within society.
A Day Longer Than Night
This somber story of love lost forever is set against the backdrop of the changes that Communism brought to the state of Georgia in the former USSR after the 1917 Revolution. Eva and Archil are deeply in love and they pledge to be with each other always. After they marry, Archil dies suddenly and Eva is left alone and childless. Along comes the ruthless Spiridon who romances Eva and marries her - though his cold and cruel spirit break Eva's naturally buoyant self, until she sullenly eats alone, and avoids intimacy with her husband as much as possible. They adopt a daughter, who does not take sides between her glum mother and silent father. When the Communist cadres enter their village to promote the ideals of the October revolution, Eva starts to warm to her husband a little because he joins in that movement. Then her husband commits the fatal error of revealing a previous crime - an error that will later cause their grown daughter to question her parents' strange behavior.
I See the Sun
In Georgia during WWII Zurikela, an orphan boy, meets Khatia, a blind girl, and vows to help her to see again.
The City Wakes Up Early
The work-relate conflict between father and son disrupts the order of previously peaceful family.
A Ball and a Pitch
The film tells the story of an accountant who is fanatically in love with football, who will go through many curious adventures full of misunderstandings before he gets to the desired match.
Tbilisi and Her Citizens
A sixteen novels about a life of a people in Tbilisi, capital of Georgia.
Meeting With The Past
In the early twenties, with the advent of Soviet power, a difficult period of collectivization began in a small Georgian mountain village. Nino leaves his native village. Years pass, becoming a famous surgeon, she comes to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the collective farm. On the day of her arrival, an unknown tramp is found in serious condition on the riverbank. Upon starting the operation, Nino recognizes this man as her ex-husband. The surgeon's thoughts go back to those distant days...
Filmography
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as Ivane
as Iliko Pertia
as Pochtalon
as Ilarioni
as Kotsia
as Zosime