Edisher Magalashvili
Also Known As: Edisher Magalashvili, Edisher Maghalashvili, Эдишер Магалашвили
Biography: Edisher Magalashvili (January 4, 1925 - January 26, 2005) was a Georgian actor. He was born in Tbilisi. Magalashvili studied at the Institute of Railway Transport Engineers in Tbilisi, where he was invited to play a minor role in the film “Akaki’s cradle” by director Konstantine Pipinashvili in 1947. After this role, Edisher decided to become a professional actor. In 1947, he graduated from the film school of the Tbilisi Film Studio, and in 1953, he graduated from the Shota Rustaveli Theatre Institute in Tbilisi. From 1946 to 1950, he worked as an actor at the Tbilisi Film Studio. From 1948 to 1964, he worked at the Marjanishvili Theater, and from 1964, he worked at the Rustaveli Theater. He was married to pianist Natalia Kavtaradze, a graduate of the Tbilisi Conservatory. They had two children, George, a neurosurgeon, and Mikhail, a cinematographer. He passed away on January 26, 2005.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tbilisi, Georgia SSR, USSR
Adult: No
Birthday: January 04, 1925
Age: 100 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 26, 2005
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They Came from Mountains
Overview: Highlander Vepkhia khalibauri steel melting study with other young people in the Urals, which will leave the profession with friends to buy. Three years after returning Vepkhia Lela's looking forward to the meeting, but finds out that the village of Lela mgelikas gaqolia married. Vephkhia discouraged friends convinced him to deception Lela married one day and have not lived with her husband. Vepkhia and Lela married.
Genres: Drama Romance Adventure
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1954-06-08
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Star of Hope
Overview: Two part film about David Bek and Mkhitar Sparapet's major Armenian uprising against Safavid Persia in the Syunik region in the 18th century.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: hy
Release Date: 1978-10-15
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Mameluke
Overview: In Arabic, “mameluke” means a white slave, a prisoner. In Egypt, this name was given to prisoners of war who had been sold into slavery from Georgia and other countries of the Caucasus. The action of this drama starts in Georgia in the late 18th century. Two friends are abducted and sold into slavery. One ends up in Egypt, the other - in Venice. Years later, they meet by the ancient pyramids, in the desert where a battle is going on between the armies of Bonaparte and Ali-bey, the ruler of Egypt. In a combat with a French officer, the Mameluke injures him. Falling from his horse onto the sand, the officer exclaims in Georgian: “Vai, nana!” (“Oh, mother!”). And the Mameluke recognizes in him a mate of his childhood games.
Genres: Drama Romance Action War Adventure History
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1958-09-14
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Spring in Sakeni
Overview: The film depicts the life of a Georgian village after the Second World War. Kesou Mirba, appointed as a brigadier in Saken, wants to get a bountiful harvest of corn on the scarce land of the highland village, he is sure that valuable mineral fertilizer will be found there. Kesou's plans are opposed by farmers who do not want to change their old way of life. One of them will replace the soil samples to be sent to the laboratory.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1950-01-01
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The Shadow On Road
Overview: The film describes the hard life of shepherds. Giorgi loves Nino, but the woman is charmed by the newly appointed head worker in the district, Levan. Careerist Levan does not take into account the experience of shepherds and commints many evils to realize his goals.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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This Is How Mayakovsky Began
Overview: Based on the autobiographical book "Ya -sam" (I-myself) by Vladimir Mayakovsky the leading Russian Futurist poet of the beginning of the 20th century. He was born in 1893, into a Russian Cossack family in the Transcaucasian kingdom of Georgia, then part of Russian Empire. There he spent his childhood and boyhood attending a grammar school in Kutaisi. Mayakovsky moved to Moscow at the age of 14, after his father's death. He became a poet, an artist, an actor, a writer/director and public speaker.
Genres: Drama Family History
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1959-08-24
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The Blue Notebook
Overview: In the summer of 1917, Vladimir Lenin leaves Petrograd and shelters in Razliv with fellow revolutionary Grigory Zinoviev. In the weeks that follow, Lenin writes his famous "Blue Notebook" advocating proletarian revolution.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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You Can't See What You Have Seen
Overview: The young craftsman Gogia and the village girl Tasia fall in love with each other. Arriving in Tasia's village accompanied by a wedding procession, Gogia Can't find his bride anymore, Turns out by the order of Tasia's godmother, the duke's wife, she was taken to the duke's house as a servant. The elderly duke liked Tasia and decided to marry her. Gogia with the help of his friends, Karachokheli, tries to get his bride back.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1965-07-12
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The Flood
Overview: Georgia of the 1920s. An honest, charming, but naive fisherman Lado helps all those in need. And they benefit from his kindness, first of all the miller Stephen, a greedy person, but times are changing and people like Stephen have no future.
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Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1971-11-15
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Fire
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-07-29
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Case Goes to Court
Overview: A young assistant prosecutor was entrusted with the case involving a collapsed bridge, discovering the engineer wasn't guilty after conducting her own investigation.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Отклонение - ноль
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Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1978-02-20
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The Nylon Christmas Tree
Overview: A group of people who happen to be on the same bus try to get home on the New Year's Eve, but their bus is delayed by numerous obstacles, and the tensions grow.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1985-12-01
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Roots
Overview: In the hot summer of 1917, the nineteen-year-old peasant Georgy Zakareishvili left his village in search of work and, settling on a French ship, soon found himself in Paris, where he married a Frenchwoman. Modest wealth, beloved wife, sons and a faithful friend helped him to endure separation from his homeland. When the opportunity came to his homeland, George was already old and could not postpone the upcoming meeting with his native Georgia. He tried to convey his love to his grandson George: he sang folk songs, taught Georgian, talked about the people of his village. And now, in fulfillment of his grandfather’s orders, George the Younger took his ashes to his homeland...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1987-07-04
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Bravo, Albert Lolish!
Overview: A tireless fighter for technological progress, Alik Lolishvili, a resident of old Tiflis, advertised bicycles under the pseudonym Albert Lolishvili and, together with the daughter of a city rich man, Betty Zandukeli, opened an office for their rental. The business failed, but the resilient Lolish soon appeared in the city in a sparkling car and successfully sold all the shares of the newly opened car dealership.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1988-09-01
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Anthim the Iberian
Overview: Anthim the Iberian - Antimoz Iverieli, a Georgian theologian, scholar, calligrapher, philosopher and one of the greatest ecclesiastic figures of Wallachia, led the printing press of the prince of Wallachia, and was Metropolitan of Bucharest in 1708-1715.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 2001-11-20
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Akaki's Cradle
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Genres: Drama Romance Adventure
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1947-08-26
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Keto and Kote
Overview: Using a marriage broker,a Prince in dire financial straits plans to marry the wealthy daughter of a merchant, The girl is in love with the nephew of the prince. Forced by her father into the unwelcome match, she finds a friend in another matchmaker. They arrange it so that the prince will not like the girl when he meets her.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1948-10-10
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Song of Eteri
Overview: The film tells about the life and work of Georgian music classic Zakaria Paliashvili.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1957-02-01
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Tbilisi and Her Citizens
Overview: A sixteen novels about a life of a people in Tbilisi, capital of Georgia.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1976-10-01
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Lullaby
Overview: This Georgian drama seeks to renew and reinforce a sense of cultural and national identity as it examines a tragic event in the idyllic life of an aristocratic Georgian family. Much of the film focuses upon their happy and peaceful life of this family comprised of a young couple and their baby daughter Keto. Their life changes when two drifters come in. The two men (who seem to be Muslims from the Azerbaijan republic) are met with hospitality. They repay it by kidnapping baby Keto. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Genres: Drama Family Music
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Wisdom of Lies
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Star Of Hope - Part One: David Bek
Overview: First movie of the two part film about David Bek and Mkhitar Sparapet's major Armenian uprising against Safavid Persia in the Syunik region in the 18th century. Part one tells the story of David Bek.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-15
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ო, რა ტკბილია განშორების ეს ნაზი სევდა
Overview: Based on the works of Jean Anouilh. The film, with a modern interpretation of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, deals with the eternal themes of life and death, loyalty and betrayal. Eurydice and Orpheus meet on the platform of a railway station along with other heroes of the film. Among them is Death, who kills Eurydice. Orpheus tries in vain to save Eurydice from the kingdom of death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-06-12
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ჟამი
Overview: The position of village headman is inherited, but one day a stranger of unknown origin takes over the reins of the village and dominates the people.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-07-19
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As Blue Horses
Overview: The existence of a person in an eternal circle – from birth to death. What is the main thing? Why or for what do we exist? What prevails in society – love, support, forgiveness, and mercy, or hatred, betrayal, the instinct of revenge and destruction?
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Original Language: ka
Release Date: 2003-02-12
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ძნელი დასაწყისი
Overview: A new principal is appointed at a boarding school. He will have to solve many problems before he can earn the children's trust.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-07-17
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