Tengiz Abuladze
1924 - 1994
Repentance
Tengiz Abuladze
Avtandil Makharadze, Iya Ninidze
The day after the funeral of Varlam Aravidze, the mayor of a small Georgian town, his corpse turns up in his son's garden. Although it is secretly reburied, the corpse keeps returning until the police capture the local woman who is responsible. This woman says that Varlam should never be laid to rest since his Stalin-like reign of terror led to the disappearance of her family and friends.
Repentance
The Wishing Tree
Tengiz Abuladze
Lika Kavjaradze, Soso Jachvliani
Marita arrives at a small village in Georgia to live with her aunt. She meets a poor young lad, Gedia, and falls in love with him. But her relatives are determined to marry the girl off to a local rich man…
The Wishing Tree
მაგდანას ლურჯა
Tengiz Abuladze, Rezo Chkheidze
Dudukhana Tserodze, Liana Moistsrapishvili
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…
Magdana's Donkey
The Plea
Tengiz Abuladze
Spartak Bagashvili, Rusudan Kiknadze
Brave sons of Khevsureti and Kisteti fight against each to protect their homelands. But, they confront faulty domestic traditions to respect enemy’s true prowess and find themselves in conflict with own compatriots.
The Plea
სხვისი შვილები
Tengiz Abuladze
Tsitsino Tsitsishvili, Otar Koberidze
Nato, a student, befriends two children in the street, a brother and a sister. She does not know that their father just broke up with his wife on the grounds that she was not able to find a common language with the children. Once he meets with Nato they fall in love, but their relationship does not last long because one day he meets his estranged wife by chance and goes off to be with her, abandoning both Nato and the children. Desperately Nato wants to take off, too, but realizes she can not leave the children alone.
Somebody Else's Children
Samkauli satrposatvis
Tengiz Abuladze
Ramaz Giorgobiani, Nani Bregvadze
Three guys are living in a Dagestan aul, and all three are in love with the blue-eyed Serminaz. According to a mountaineers’ tradition, a young man seeking the hand and the heart of a beloved girl has to make her a present that she would remember for the rest of her life. The friends set out in search of the special gift…
A Necklace for My Beloved
