Ivane Perestiani
Directing
Biography
No biography available for Ivane Perestiani.
Born: April 13, 1870
Place of Birth: Taganrog, Don Voisko Oblast, Russian Empire [now Rostov Oblast, Russia]
Known For
The Dying Swan
After being betrayed by her playboy lover, a heartbroken mute young woman joins a ballet company; during a performance of “The Dying Swan,” she enraptures a painter obsessed with portraying death genuinely.
A Revolutionary
In 1907, the Russian authorities learn that a revolutionary known as 'Granddad' is living in hiding with his brother. The revolutionary is soon arrested and sent to Siberia. After ten years of struggling to survive in harsh conditions, he is finally released when the Tsarist government is overthrown in February 1917. He is welcomed home as a hero, but he soon finds that even his own son has different views than he does about the future of Russia.
A Life for a Life
Wealthy Mrs. Khromova has a natural daughter, Musya, and an adopted daughter, Nata. The merchant Zhurov is in love with Nata, and hopes to marry her, but she is non-committal.
The Great Dawn
In 1917, the people of the Russian Empire are no longer willing to fight Germany, but the bourgeois government of Alexander Kerensky is unwilling to defy its imperialist allies and stop the war. Only Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik Party is resolute in calling for peace. In the front, the soldiers of one battalion elect three delegates to travel to St. Petersburg with donations the troops collected for the Pravda newspaper: Gudushauri, Panasiuk and Ershov. The three arrive in the capital and describe the horrendous conditions in which the soldiers live to Joseph Stalin, Lenin's trusted aid and colleague. They join the Bolsheviks and take part in the storming of the Winter Palace, led by Stalin and Lenin. Stalin announces that the great dawn of revolution has broken.
Arsena Georgiashvili (murder of General Griaznov)
Revolutionary uprising of Georgian laborers in 1905.
Arsena
XIX century peasants' revolt and the life story of bandit Arsena Odzelashvili.
George Saakadze
The film tells about the struggle of the Georgian people under the leadership of the great commander George Saakadze for a centralized state.
Cinema in Russia
Documentary film about early years of Russian cinema: its first directors, cameramen, producers and actors. Includes rare fragments of pre-revolutionary feature films, newsreels and Starewicz's animation.
Akaki's Cradle
Film about the childhood and teenage years of the national poet of Georgia Akaki Tsereteli.
David Bek
The Armenian national hero, David Bek, leads a major Armenian uprising against Safavid Persia in the Syunik region in the 18th century.
Filmography
as Film footage
as Minister
as Nuncio of Pope
as General
as Baron Rozen
as Vorontsov-Dashkov
as Pyotr Shelestov, middle-aged writer
as Lebedev, member of the State Duma
as Old revolutionary
as Glinskiy's Friend
as Count Zapolskiy
as Zhurov, the merchant
as Nemov, engineer