Lia Eliava
Also Known As: Leah Eliab, Liya Eliava, Лия Шалвовна Элиава
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tbilisi, Georgia SSR, USSR
Adult: No
Birthday: May 28, 1934
Age: 90 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: October 08, 1998
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The Book of Oath

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Genres: Drama Adventure War History
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Chiakokona

Overview: A young farmer,Roin and Irma fall in love, but Roin is drafted into the army. Time passes, Irma gets married to a famous Menshevik, but on the day of the wedding, Roin returns.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1962-04-23
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Sentence

Overview: Engineer Japaridze, in order to speed up the construction of the hydroelectric station, grossly violates the safety rules and causes a disaster. He is sentenced to a long prison term.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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Chiora

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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1984-12-01
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Children of the Sea

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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1964-12-30
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Bashi-Achuki

Overview: The 17th century rebellion in Kakheti masterminded by Bidzina Cholokashvili gets about the whole Georgia. An Imeretian youth nicknamed as Bashi-Achuk is a real exterminator of the Persians. He attacks the Persian escort and sets free the Georgian women who were supposed to be locked up in the Shah’s harem. Bashi-Achuk’s twin sisters are among the rescued captives. Abdushahil, a Persian warrior who was defeated by Bashi-Achuk in wrestling, falls in love with Mzisa, Bashi-achuk’s sister. Mzisa brings Abdushahil to the camp of the Georgian rebels. Abdushahil learns that he is a Georgian too. As a child he was kidnapped and brought up in Persia. Abdushahil’s army gives up and the Georgians win the battle.
Genres: Adventure History Romance
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1956-12-02
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Escape at Dawn

Overview: The trial of political prisoners is taking place in the Kutaisi prison. They face hanging or life imprisonment. In order to release them from prison, a party figure, nicknamed "Chagara" and a revolutionary woman, "Vardo", aka Nato Nakashidze-Volfisa, come to the city. She rents a house near the prison, supposedly to open a knitting workshop. Will they be able to escape?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1975-12-01
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Adventures of Lazare

Overview: An orphaned boy, Lazare, follows a wandering blind man from village to village to find the daily bread. Despite the extreme hardships, their relationship becomes a kind of moral support for the child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Sea Wolf

Overview: Arsena got tired of being a farmer, decided to go to Batumi and start working on a ship. Arriving in Batumi, he encounters a film crew that urgently needs a rescuer. But Arsena can't adjust to the restless life of the film crew, he misses the village, and when this "experienced sailor" almost drowns at sea because he doesn't know how to swim, he has no choice but to return home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1974-08-19
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The City Wakes Up Early

Overview: The work-relate conflict between father and son disrupts the order of previously peaceful family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1968-06-17
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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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Me and My Neighbors

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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1973-01-02
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How's Home, How's Everything?

Overview: A story about a life of a group of children in Tbilisi, Georgia during WWII.
Genres: War Family Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-05-28
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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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Spring Comes Soon

Overview: The old peasant Minago Iremadze and his wife miss their children who live in the city. The older brother married a city girl, the younger studies there. Minago decides to bring them back home. He goes to the city and tells everything to his sons. The brothers understand their dad well but cannot abandon the city life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1969-02-24
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Cheers, My Dear!

Overview: Four novels "Dinner", "Secret", "business Trip" and "Mozart", United by a common theme of kindness and attention to the surrounding people, tell about the adventures of two elderly, but not lost the taste for life of Georgians!
Genres: Comedy Family TV Movie
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1981-12-30
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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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I See the Sun

Overview: In Georgia during WWII Zurikela, an orphan boy, meets Khatia, a blind girl, and vows to help her to see again.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1965-06-20
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Cinema

Overview: At the end of the 20th century, the son of a distinguished family, Sosiko Cholokashvili, became interested in cinematography, a field unknown to the public. Despite his inexperience, financial difficulties, and disappointment, one of the first enthusiasts of Georgian cinema recorded many shots depicting the appearance and existence of old Tbilisi on tape.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1977-06-25
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Interrupted Song

Overview: Young couple separated by World War 2, dream of being reunited years later.
Genres: War Romance
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1960-05-13
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Full Circle

Overview: Tbilisi, early 1980s. From the outside, everything seems calm, but behind this tranquillity there is turmoil. Manana, who used to be a movie star, is no longer remembered by any director. Her childhood friend Rusudan suffers from loneliness despite a successful scientific career. Manana's aunt, Matiko, mourns her late husband. Her daughter, 19-year-old Salome, and her friends are also facing life's difficulties. Through strange coincidences, the lives of the film's characters become intertwined...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Saroyan Brothers

Overview: 1920. Last days of the first Armenian Republic. Armenian Army fights on two fronts: war with Turkish army in the west, and Red Army incursion and Bolshevik mutiny in the northeast. Hayk Saroyan returns to his native provincial town from Russia to assume a minor post at Dashnak Army command center. His brother Gevorg, captain at the same command center, is a real patriot prefering death to "eternal exile", army power to relegious mercifullness. Very soon a suspicion creeps inside him: his beloved brother is Bolshevik spy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hy
Release Date: 1969-06-12
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Ночной визит

Overview: Police officers are investigating the theft of a Stradivarius violin.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1976-07-19
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Iriston's Son

Overview: The historical and biographical film is dedicated to the national classic of Ossetia - poet and playwright Kosta Khetagurov.
Genres: History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1960-01-19
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Don't Believe that I'm No Longer Here

Overview: The film is based on a real story. Climbers found the purse of a military postman killed during World War II, letters sent 30 years later.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1975-12-04
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The Old Engine Driver

Overview: Based on the story "Gabo" by Archil Sulakauri.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1983-08-07
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Who is Fourth?

Overview: Dangerous criminals attempt to involve children in their crimes, but law enforcement officers manage to promptly put a stop to their activities.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1986-05-19
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The Tent of Wisdom

Overview: The film is based on the fables of Sulkhan-Saba Orbelia
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Blue Mountains, or Unbelievable Story

Overview: An author - a passive young man - enters the Soviet-controlled bureaucracy of Georgia attempting to get his novel published only to be neglected and compartmentalized at every turn.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1983-12-18
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The Book of Oath

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Genres: Drama Adventure War History
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Bagrationi

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Genres: History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1985-12-09
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The Family

Overview: A young woman tries to finish her dissertation while family chaos rages around her.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1985-01-10
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The Fate Of A Woman

Overview: Keto is forced to marry a gendarme captain after her brother is arrested for trying to free her revolutionary financé
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1957-06-18
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Male Choir

Overview: The male choir enthusiastically welcomed the new conductor, a charming young woman.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1968-01-08
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Sound of the Pipe

Overview: The novelette was written by I.Huseynov. In the film, the problem of war is viewed from the perspective of love. Almost all of the men of the village are at the battlefront. The women who stayed in the night and day to support their efforts. Children wake up in the middle of the night, crying for bread. All of the villagers feel anxious for the men to return. Mothers are waiting for their sons; wives, for their husbands and children, for their fathers. When Sayali's husband dies at the front, her husband's friend Jabrayil proposes to her. The people of the village are furious. Jabrayil's brothers leave home, convinced that their family has been disgraced. One brother goesw crazy; the other fall ill and dies. The only person who doesn't blame Jabrayil is the "agsaggal" (the wise old man) of the village - Isfandiyar Kishi. In this film, note single sound of weaponry is heard, not are any battle scenes depicted, yet we still witness the inherent tragedy of war.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1975-12-01
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იყო და არა იყო რა

Overview: How a peasant boy tamed his troublesome wife - based on motifs from Georgian folk tales.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-11-01
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მხოლოდ სიკვდილი მოდის აუცილებლად

Overview: georgian movie
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-07-10
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