Tengiz ABULADZE
Тенгиз АБУЛАДЗЕ
Tenguiz ABOULADZE
Revaz CHKHEIDZE
Реваз ЧХЕИДЗЕ
Revaz TCHKHEIDZE
USSR, 1955, 67mn 
Black and white, fiction
Magdana's Donkey
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Лурджа Магданы

 

 L'Ane de Magdana

 Lurdzha Magdany

Other titles : Le Petit âne de Magdana / Magdanas lurja
 
Directed by : Tengiz ABULADZE (Тенгиз АБУЛАДЗЕ), Revaz CHKHEIDZE (Реваз ЧХЕИДЗЕ)
Writing credits : Karlo GOGODZE (Карло ГОГОДЗЕ)
 
Cast
David ABASHIDZE (Давид АБАШИДЗЕ)
Mikho BARASHVILI (Михо БАРАШВИЛИ) ...Mikho
Nani CHIKVINIDZE (Нани ЧИКВИНИДЗЕ) ...Kato
Akaki KVANTALIANI (Акакий КВАНТАЛИАНИ) ...Mitua
L. MOISTSRAPISHVILI (Л. МОИСЦРАПИШВИЛИ) ...Sopo
Dudukhana TSERODZE (Дудухана ЦЕРОДЗЕ) ...Magdana
 
Cinematography : Aleksandr DIGMELOV (Александр ДИГМЕЛОВ), Lev SUKHOV (Лев СУХОВ)
Production design : Iosif SUMBATASHVILI (Иосиф СУМБАТАШВИЛИ)
Music : Arсhil KERESELIDZE (Арчил КЕРЕСЕЛИДЗЕ)
Sound : Raphael KAZELI (Рафаэль КАЗЕЛИ)
Production : Grouzia-film
 
Awards :
Best feature film, Short films, Festival de Cannes, Cannes (France), 1956
DVD with subtitles
Editor : Ruscico. 2006.
Langues : RU GE FR EN
Sous-titres : RU EN FR DE ES IT NL
Plot synopsis
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…
Source : www.ruscico.com
 
Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Thaw Films : 1953-1968, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- Russian or Soviet films awarded at Berlin, Cannes or Venice, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- Georgian films on kinoglaz.fr, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- Russian films in the cinema Arlequin, Paris (France), 2008
- Festival de Cannes, Cannes (France), 1956
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