Zurab Kapianidze
Also Known As: Zura Qapianidze
Biography: Zurab Kapanadze (born April 1, 1937, Nakieti village, Oni district - died July 4, 2011, Tbilisi) was a Georgian actor. People’s Artist of Georgia (1979), Laureate of the Shota Rustaveli State Prize (1985). In 1961, he graduated from the theatrical faculty of the Shota Rustaveli State Theater Institute in Tbilisi. From 1961 to 1964, he worked at the Kutaisi Lado Meskhishvili State Drama Theater. From 1964, he was an actor at the “Georgian Film” studio. From 1999 to 2004, he was a member of the Georgian Parliament of the 5th convocation, on the list of the electoral bloc “Revival of Georgia”. He is prohibited from being buried in the Pantheon of Writers and Public Figures.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, USSR, [now Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia]
Adult: No
Birthday: April 02, 1937
Age: 88 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: July 04, 2011
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Crucified Island
Overview: Based on true story of Georgian uprising on Texel. Insurrection of captured Soviet-Georgian soldiers conscripted into German Wehrmacht on Holland's Texel Island during German occupation of Holland
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1968-12-17
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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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Poem of Kovpak: Carpathians, Carpathians...
Overview: A third of a series of movies about Kovpak - the partisans chief during WWII.
Genres: War Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1978-02-13
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Story of Ivane Kotorashvili
Overview: Ivane does not think about starting a family life, so the villagers deicide to force him marry and try to take him and his bride to the church using all the possible means.
Genres: Adventure Romance Comedy
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1974-12-04
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Tbilisi, Paris, Tbilisi
Overview: Tbilisi in the beginning of the 20th century . Emigrants who moved from Tbilisi to Paris for various reasons cannot resist the feeling of nostalgia and decide to return to their homeland by air balloon .
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1980-12-01
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Falling Leaves
Overview: A young worker takes a job at a local state run winery only to discover and become disillusioned by the corruption of the Soviet State.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1966-01-16
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Stealing Of The Moon
Overview: The story is based on Konstantine Gamsakhurdia's novel and depicts the social and political changes taking place in Soviet Georgia in the 1930s through the line of the main characters: Tarash Emkhvari and Arzakan Zvambaya.
Genres: History
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1973-09-01
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Tariel Golua
Overview: Georgian village during the revolution of 1905. The struggle of the peasantry against the landlords. Tariel Golua's son, Levan, leads the rebellion. Tariel himself is in favor of a peaceful solution to the conflict, but when his son is brutally killed, and the houses of the rebels and their supporters are set on fire, Tariel is convinced that it is impossible to gain freedom without an armed struggle.
Genres: Romance Action History
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1969-10-27
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Waiting
Overview: Ketevan, a village doctor, is already sending her second son away in the world war. Only the youngest child, Mamuka, remains as the family's hope. Ketevan does not lack care for the sick, lives in hope, and waits for his children to return home. But the harsh reality of the war demands a sacrifice from her again - Ketevani sends his third son to the war as well.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1971-02-08
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The Bandit From The Brick Factory
Overview: Vazha, also known as Pkhinko, is a kind hearted person. He cannot remain indifferent when a man is beaten, but if he deserves it, he can punish himself and go to prison for it.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1983-12-17
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Gladiator
Overview: An elderly lion tamer can't even tame a dog anymore, however he can not retire from his favorite job and so he is forced to do tricks himself instead of lions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Alooba
Overview: The wife advises her husband, who is exhausted by the whole day's work to mix water in the wine to sell in the market, but for her husband it is a matter of conscience.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1968-09-16
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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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New Arcadia
Overview: Two pensioners sheltered a lost cow on the ninth floor of a city house.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Pirosmani
Overview: A biography of the Georgian primitive artist Nikoloz Pirosmanishvili (1862–1918), better known as Pirosmani, who died of starvation and sold his paintings to bars and restaurants for food and drink. The film experiments with color control techniques based on the painter’s style.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1969-12-28
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The New Adventures of Captain Vrungel
Overview: The extraordinary adventures of schoolboy Vasya Lopotukhin aboard the yacht of the famous Captain Vrungel and his cheerful first mate Lom…The dashing crew investigates the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle, braves hurricanes and storms, fights with Fierce Harry and the band of his cutthroats. Coming next is solving the mystery of Atlantis…
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1978-12-15
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Wedding
Overview: Beginning in 1943. year. The tragic story of the prisoners... partisans and others who were found in a prison in Montenegro at the time when the Chetniks and the occupiers at all costs they want to crush the uprising in Yugoslavia.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1973-12-06
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The Saplings
Overview: Old Luka dreams to plant rare pear saplings in his orchard, so that after years his beloved grandson Kakha will enjoy its fruits. In his tough journey to get the saplings, Luka gives Kakha lots of life lessons.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Living Legends
Overview: The stone-cutter, Nasdika, transforms stones into works of art. The labourer, Ivané, harvests wheat in the field. The monk, Béka, paints his pictures in the convent cell. The nobleman, Kirilé, has decided to get married. The war started by enemies turns all these people into warriors. Living Legends is a parable, a hymn to the glory of the georgian people, enamoured of freedom and independence, whose most worthy sons have never hesitated to die in the name of the glorious future of their country.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1976-05-07
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Londre
Overview: the movie about Londre
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1966-12-29
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I Want to See You
Overview: Film by Veiczi.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-05-04
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The Fastest People in the World
Overview: Rachvelians, notables with their slowness tell awkward, partly unbelievable and very funny anecdotes they have gone through, while their countryman participates in long-distance race.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1985-12-29
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Morning Bells
Overview: Young Teacher Lado moves to the village, where he falls in love with Ketu,a young librarian, but Ketu has been engaged to a fellow villager since childhood. Chofe and his brother threaten Lado that breaking his word and breaking custom can be fatal for the lovers. However, young people are not afraid of threats.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1967-11-28
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The Snow Wedding
Overview: A vaudeville based on a love story. Young Bela hurries by taxi to her fiance, to whom she was engaged in early childhood. A landslide in the mountains delayed the car...
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-07-28
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Ballad of Khevsureti
Overview: When Imeda’s father is killed in a blood revenge accident, the family moves him to the city where he is sheltered at his father’s friend. After fifteen year he gets back to Khevsureti. A talented painter, he spends most of his time doing sketches of nature and people. There he meets a local beauty, Mzekala and fells in love with her but finds out that Torghva is also in love with her. Enraged by Imeda’s impudence Torghva calls him for a sword fight and is killed by Imeda. To avoid another round of blood revenge, the villagers let Imeda and Mzekala out of the village but someone who wants Imeda’s blood finds it out and follows them.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1966-12-19
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Feola
Overview: A man is put in charge of organizing a children's soccer team, but he doesn't know anything about the sport.
Genres: Family Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1970-04-11
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The Plea
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1967-12-24
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Oh, This Terrible TV
Overview: Photographer Tazo has almost everything - an old apartment in old Tbilisi, and a lady of his heart, and work, and football... All that is missing for ultimate happiness is a TV.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1990-12-31
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Zealous Piglet
Overview: The piglet became famous throughout the village for his tricks. Having spent time with him, the owners, Marta and her son Kukuri, took the prankster to Tbilisi to the bazaar.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Chermen
Overview: This historic drama is set in an Ossetian village in the 17th century. The film’s main hero is Chermen. An illegitimate son, Chermen is striving to assert his dignity. He is opposed by Dacco, the elder of the Aldar clan, in whose village Chermen lives. Guided by mercenary motives, Dacco strikes a deal with Prince Tsarai. Together, they rob people and then divide the loot between themselves. By some chance, Chermen learns of the deal and informs his friends about it. At first, he thinks that no one in the Aldar village would believe him, the bastard, and that the plot would remain unexposed. But the friends accept the challenge.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1970-10-09
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Star of My Town
Overview: Ololi, a young actress, returns to her family and hometown after separating from her husband. Her father's colleague wants to marry her, but his desire is driven more by ambition than genuine affection. However, Ololi falls in love with someone else, a young driver named Guja. Guja loves Ololi as well, but he struggles against societal judgment, which looks down upon the profession of an actress.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Clicks
Overview: Screen adaptation of F. Gorenshtein's satirical stories. A short story film allegorically depicting the life of Soviet Georgia.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1973-07-27
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Mikha
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1966-06-01
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ბებერი მეზურნეები
Overview: The film tells the story of three elderly musicians who preserve the charm of old Tbilisi in their modern life. Their children died in the war, and those who were left without descendants were left with only their faithful spouses to take care of them. They exist with memories of the past and set excellent examples of philanthropy to those around them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-04-15
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On the Track of the Wolf
Overview: The film reproduces the events of the summer of 1921, when Kotovsky, at the head of a separate cavalry brigade, completed the defeat of the Antonov counterrevolutionary rebellion in the Tambov region, destroying Matyukhin's gang.
Genres: History
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1977-12-12
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Small Town of Anara
Overview: Tadeoz Toroshelidze is the most reknowned wine drinker in the whole area. Once he even won a drinking horn in a competition that has rested in his house ever since.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1978-03-14
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Open the Windows
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1981-12-05
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Georgians In The Sky
Overview: The Messenger of God appears to the passengers of the plane and asks each of them about their sins. An extreme situation reveals the hidden nature of people.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1984-05-07
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დაბრუნება
Overview: Vazha served his sentence for stealing a cow and returned to the village. Upon his return, he decided to repair the house. His friends promised to help, but then everyone had their own business.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-08-21
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აქედანა და შენამდე
Overview: The friends decide to marry the young veterinarian, Bachuta, and make a list of possible brides, but Bachuta is already in love with Taliko, who works with him on the farm.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-05-09
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Avalanche
Overview: The story of the enthusiasts of the 1930s - the pioneers of the Khibiny and conquerors of the icy tundra.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-01-13
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