
Ipolite Khvichia
Acting
Biography
Ipolite Khvichia was Georgian actor, People's Artist of Georgia.
Born: June 15, 1910
Place of Birth: Kintauri, Russian Empire
Known For

Romeo, My Neighbour
Film is about conflicts between neighbours and a celebration of love.

Excuse Me! You Are About to Die
A naive girl finds a notebook containing plans for possible murders. She sets out to find everyone mentioned in it and warn them of their prospective gruesome deaths.

My Friend Nodar
Nodar, the man with a fickle character, leaves his wife and children in the village and goes to Kutaisi in search of his fortune. His friend Givi advises Nodar to return to his family, but Nodar wants to live in the city and will start working as a manager of a car factory dancer's circle.

Mimino
Georgian bush pilot Valentin (Valiko) Mizandari a.k.a. Mimino works at small local airlines, flying helicopters between small villages. But he dreams of piloting large international airlines aircrafts, so he goes to Moscow for refresher courses. There in a hotel he meets truck driver Robik who is given a place in that hotel by mistake, and they have a lot of adventures in Moscow. Always amicable and open to people, Mimino does not feel at home in the big city. Nevertheless, he becomes a pilot of a supersonic jet liner, the Tupolev Tu-144, flying all over the world. But feeling homesick, he finally comes back to his native town of Telavi in Georgia, to his family and friends.

Fuse
Fitil is a popular Soviet/Russian television satirical/comedy short film series which ran for about 500 episodes. Some of the episodes were aimed at children, and were called Фитилёк, Fitilyok, Little Fuse. Each issue contained from the few short segments: documentary, fictional and animated ones. Directed by various artists, including Leonid Gaidai who presented his famous trio of Nikulin, Vitsin and Morgunov into the cast. It was called in USSR as "the anecdotes from the Soviet government".

Don't Grieve!
Benjamin, the local doctor is a soul of a local society, the educated, friendly, democratic person who often treats the poor for free. It makes him very popular with the locals but most certainly does not help with his bank account. He is in love with a beautiful Manette who is also crazy about him but is being watched closely by her father who called his daughter "his small capital" and is determined to protect her virginity until the moment the marriage contract has been signed...

Death of a Philatelist
A respected philatelist is murdered in his own apartment, leaving only one inconspicuous stamp stolen from his collection. The seemingly unmotivated murder leads prosecutors on a trail of a dangerous criminal.

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.

Feola
A man is put in charge of organizing a children's soccer team, but he doesn't know anything about the sport.

First Swallow
A film about the first football team to be formed in Georgia, based in Poti at the beginning of XX century.
Filmography
as Kaja Bulava
as Silibistro
as Kukush
as Varlami
as Ipolite Beridze (Ipo)
as Ipolite
as Bondo Dolaberidze
as Kaflan
as Shamatava
as Kazhina
as Sandro
as Nariman
as Merabi
as Ipolite
as Karamani
as Police-officer
as Beglara
as Kolumb Khristaforovich
as Melitoni
as Kuchkuchi
as Nikifore
as Building manager
as Almaskhan