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Revaz Gabriadze

Revaz Gabriadze

Writing

Biography

Revaz "Rezo" Gabriadze was a Georgian theatre and film director, playwright, writer, painter, and sculptor. In addition to writing the scripts to some of the most popular comedies of the Soviet era, he won widespread acclaim for his work as the founder and artistic director of a puppet theatre in his hometown of Kutaisi, Georgia. His son, Levan Gabriadze, is also an actor and film director.

Known For

Mimino
7.6

Local Georgian pilot Mimino dreams of flying airplanes for major international airlines. To realize his aspirations, he goes to Moscow where he encounters a fellow comrade from the Caucasus, the Armenian Rubik. Many misadventures ensue.

Mimino

1977
Kin-dza-dza!
7.7

Two Soviet humans previously unknown to each other are transported to the planet Pluke in the Kin-dza-dza galaxy due to a chance encounter with an alien teleportation device. They must come to grips with a language barrier and Plukian social norms (not to mention the laws of space and time) if they ever hope to return to Earth.

Kin-dza-dza!

1986
The Passport
6.1

Merab, a Georgian taxi driver who mistakenly crosses into Israel while seeing off his Jewish brother, Yasha, gets stuck without documents. He gets entangled in bureaucratic nightmares, mistaken identity, and KGB plots while trying to return home.

The Passport

1990
Don't Grieve!
6.3

Benjamin, the local doctor is a soul of a local society, the educated, friendly, democratic person who often treats the poor for free. It makes him very popular with the locals but most certainly does not help with his bank account. He is in love with a beautiful Manette who is also crazy about him but is being watched closely by her father who called his daughter "his small capital" and is determined to protect her virginity until the moment the marriage contract has been signed...

Don't Grieve!

1968
Ku! Kin-dza-dza
5.0

Beginner DJ Shreds and world-renowned cellist Vladimir Chizhov meet on a noisy street in Moscow barefoot man. Clicking on the strange machine, the characters are moved to the desert planet Plyuk. A remake of the beloved animated film "Kin-dza-dza!" No less fascinating and funny than the original, the adventures of the Shred and Uncle Vova. In this world of sand inhabitants are divided into two categories - patsaks and chatlan, a simple match has incredible value, and the people are met and escorted by the color of his pants.

Ku! Kin-dza-dza

2013
An Unusual Exhibition
6.5

The war is over. Once a young sculptor, and now a soldier, he returned home. Married, there were children. In search of work, he was hired to make grave monuments. Time passed... At one time, visiting a cemetery with friends, he saw with different eyes all his work done over the years...

An Unusual Exhibition

1968
The Eccentrics
7.1

Ertaoz travels to the city with the intent to sell a chicken and pay off his father's debts. Upon arrival, he falls for the beautiful Margalita and decides to help her dispose of her ex-lover's body. However, at the cemetery, the lover–a policeman–unexpectedly regains consciousness and arrests Ertaoz and the chicken. Ertaoz is sentenced to ten years, while the bird receives seven. In prison, they meet an inventor who has built a flying machine that runs not on fuel but the power of love.

The Eccentrics

1974
One Fine Day
8.5

A film almanac consisting of two short stories, united by a common idea of the need to maintain harmony between private and public interests: “Suite” and “One Fine Day”. The hero of the story ”Suite" is a lifeguard on the shore. The events taking place at sea do not bother him at all. To the music of Bizet, he dreams of Carmen, her exploits, valor and strong love... The hero of the short story “One Fine Day”, a promising researcher, one morning saw a spaceship from his balcony. Do this a little restlessly to his mother-in-law, neighbors, acquaintances, boss and, finally, to a psychiatrist...

One Fine Day

1977
Dumas in the Caucasus
N/A

One day, Alexander Dumas the Father decided to visit the Caucasus. Many adventures awaited him there. A cheerful fantasy about the stay of the great French romantic in the Caucasus. Extraordinary adventures, love, friendship, and loyalty help the hero, who enters into a fight with the cruel and treacherous Circassian prince Vakhvari.

Dumas in the Caucasus

1979
Caucasian romance
7.0

Relatives of the beautiful Mardjan consider Elberd unworthy of her hand. Father, uncle and grandmother keep the girl locked up. And for protection they use a whole pack of dogs. But the cunning Elberd manages to lure the dogs into large baskets, hang them high on the branches of trees, and take his beloved out of the house.

Caucasian romance

1975
Kvevri
5.3

Gogia brings home a kvevri (georgian wine vessel) made in Imereti in Kakheti . Kvevri brought from a distance with a sledgehammer breaks carelessly. Gogia takes craftsman Abesalom home, who repairs the kvevri, but he himself will get stuck inside of it .

Kvevri

1971
Lemon Cake
7.8

Road masters Abessalom, Beso and Gigla decide to enjoy lemon cake for dessert.

Lemon Cake

1977
Feola
6.1

A man is put in charge of organizing a children's soccer team, but he doesn't know anything about the sport.

Feola

1970
Mountain Summiters
7.0

Having met road workers, a sports instructor convinces them to sign up in the mountaineering section and begin to conquer the surrounding peaks.

Mountain Summiters

1977
Spring On A Roadside
N/A

Puple, Valerian and Asiko are elderly actors. People no longer pay attention to the famous actors of the past. The troupe went on tour without them. They gladly agree to introduce their art to the residents of the village of Fandauri, but as they arrive in the village they find out that they have been invited to the opening of the spring, and they are only asking them for a poem or just a word that touches their heart. The cheerful mood of the actors will be replaced by a sad one.

Spring On A Roadside

1975
Thermometer
6.3

Three road workers apply road markings. Exhausted by the excruciating heat, Gigla pretends to be sick by putting a randomly found street thermometer in his bosom.

Thermometer

1976
Serenade
5.3

Two men fight to win the heart of a charming girl. One is much stronger, but it seems that only physical strength means nothing.

Serenade

1968
Rezo
8.1

The rich inner world of famous Georgian theater and film director, artist and puppeteer Rezo Gabriadze is as fantastic as the animation into which he has poured this story of his life. Rezo’s director son Levan "Leo" Gabriadze, who previously made the horror film Unfriended (2014), leaves it to his father to talk about a life suffused with magical thinking.

Rezo

2018
Waltz on Mtatsminda
6.0

Nazo and Koba decide to apply to a theater institute, but despite Koba being accepted, they both return home, not wanting to study separately.

Waltz on Mtatsminda

1975
Pushkin-Bitov-Gabriadze. The Escape
N/A

Russian writer Andrey Bitov and Georgian artist Rezo Gabriadze talk about Pushkin. The picture is made in the synthetic genre of animadoc — at the junction of documentary films and artistic animation.

Pushkin-Bitov-Gabriadze. The Escape

2022