Levan Abashidze Movies
- 1987
Nikolai Ispolatov plays the lead character in this story taken from famed Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. The visitor is a 33-year-old intellectual who moves into a mansion run by a father, a son, and a daughter. The uneducated trio communicates in their own language of unrecognizable sounds of grunting. The visitor tells the family of the story of the death of Christ and the betrayal of Judas. Soon the misconstrued family believes the visitor may be the Messiah, and they prepare for his crucifixion in hopes they will receive eternal salvation. The feature is filled with allegory, symbolism, and a sense of the bizarre. The film is the first directorial effort by Aleksandr Kaidanovski, the famous actor and protégé of Andrei Tarkovsky. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi
- Starring:
- Nikolai Ispolatov, Levan Abashidze, (more)
- 1986
In a deliberately unhurried manner, this film tells a story of an actress' family life. She has a husband, a lovely child, and a comfortable life. On the surface, she has a lot of understanding friends. Gradually, the film shifts from a lyrical mood to a more sober and exact portrait of the people and their time. This film won a "Best Director" Award at the Tokyo Film Festival. The manner in which the story is told is somewhat disconcerting, as its episodes are intentionally put together in a way which makes them seem as if they are happening to completely unconnected people. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Leyla Abashidze, Liya Eliava, (more)
- 1986
By means of an artful, non-stop comedy of the absurd, director Alexander Rekhviashvili sends up, way up, some of the more common human foibles. Alexei (Mirab Ninidze) may live in a chaotic apartment or rent-a-room situation, but he is serious about trying to find a job and making something of himself. The trouble is that the people who impinge the most on his life only frustrate his good intentions. His professors are a weird lot whose motors, when running, are always on idle and never in gear. Instead of complying with Alexei's request to help him find a job, they expertly pass the buck. Other odd characters wander in and out of Alexei's apartment, and in the end, all their ennui and humorous eccentricities have a decided effect on him. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Merab Ninidze, Irina Chichinadze, (more)
- 1984
This Russian drama is set in 1907 just before the Revolution erupted and centers upon a young musician who is trying to record all of the folk songs in his big country. His journey leads him to encounter all types of people. The only shadow is the threat of Czarist troops looking to exterminate those who seem to threaten the crumbling monarchy. The musician finds himself pursued when his map is mistaken by soldiers for a list of possible radicals. All those the musician visited are executed and as the story ends, a community religious celebration becomes a massacre when the troops suddenly move in to seize them en masse. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Giya Peradze, Levan Abashidze, (more)
- 1979
This film won the Grand Prize of the All-Union Film Festival, State Prize of USSR. Sofiko Chiaureli plays a newspaperwoman whose job requires her to travel about with a photographer interviewing people whose letters to the newspaper seem interesting and socially significant. When confronted by a choice between dealing with a philandering husband's derelictions or her much more interesting career, she chooses the career and becomes herself the kind of woman she has been interviewing. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Sofiko Chiaureli, Giya Badridze, (more)
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