
Aleksandre Takaishvili
Acting
Biography
Aleksandre Takaishvili was born on 29 September 1895 in Agbulakhi, Tiflis Governorate, Russian Empire [now Republic of Georgia]. He was an actor and writer, known for Tavadis asuli Meri (1926), Pirveli dge (1936) and Boshuri siskhli (1928). He died on 30 October 1958 in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, USSR [now Republic of Georgia].
Known For

A pretty young Azeri woman Giuli and Georgian guy Mitro are very in love. But because of traditions she can not marry him. Young people run away to get happy together, but without success.
Giuli

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…
Magdana's Donkey

The protagonist, a lazy pen-pusher, gets the sack for his bureaucratic idleness, and learns that the way back into the job market depends on getting a letter of recommendation from a "grandmother"
My Grandmother

The boring daily life of the high society of Pyatigorsk in the XIX century is revived by the arrival of Pechorin from St. Petersburg. Pechorin’s love affair with Mary becomes the subject of controversy.
Duchess Mary

1918 year. One of the southern cities is captured by the Whites. An underground Bolshevik committee is preparing an armed uprising in the city.
At the Last Hour

Directed by Kote Mardzhanishvili Production: Georgia Goskinprom The fate of two Georgian schoolchildren, Gogi and Kiko, who share a love of painting, a dream to go to art school. The action of the film begins on the eve of the October Revolution.
Gogi Ratiani

The dashing mountaineer Zaur (B. Bestaev) kills a Russian "imperialist" thereby becoming an abrek, member of a roving band of outlaws.
Abrek Zaur

19th century Russia. Georgian student falls in love with a young girl and is going to marry her. But the girl is in love with someone else. Aslan kills his rival and, escapes to Caucasus, where he gets married and tries to start a new life.
Mystery of Lighthouse

The action of the film takes place in 1905-07. The main characters are a revolutionary who escaped from Metekhi prison and two brothers who hate each other.
Farewell

Pechorin is deprived of the officer’s rank and gets transferred to one of the mountain villages of the Caucasus. He gets bored of the everyday life and starts looking for fun. He promises Azamat to help him steal Kazbich’s horse if the former allows Pechorin to marry his sister Bela. Soon Pechorin gets annoyed by Bela’s presence. Kazbich, insulted by the theft of his horse kills Bela. Coldblooded Pechorin is hardly moved by this news.
Bela

A group of students from Tbilisi is sent to practice with shepherds. Here, the goods are treated by old methods with the advice of doctors. Students begin to use new methods of treatment. They are fiercely opposed by the doctors. One of them also commits evil deeds: he calls a sheep suffering from anthrax in the kolmeurneo flock. The sheep dies. Practitioners are trying their best to save the flock of sheep. Vaccination will be carried out immediately. Timely measures will yield results
Desert

The story takes place in the mountains of Tusheti (Northeast Georgia) where a shepherd refuses to obey his rich and influential master.
Shelter of Clouds

Romeo and Juliet a-la Romani style.
Gypsy Blood

There was a good blacksmith in the village. Someone decides to promote the blacksmith and appoints a secretary for him. Later the blacksmith gets his substitute and a cashier. There emerges a bunch of the loiterers around the blacksmith.
Blacksmith
The film tells the story of a hard-working and unfruitful life of a peasant from Adjara in the 1930s, who is forced to serve others to avoid starvation and destruction.
Hasani

Loosely based on Aleksandr Kuprin's short story "The White Poodle".
First Day

A pioneer group has set up camp in a mountainous village in Georgia. The pioneers are collecting medicinal plants in response to a call from the newspaper Pravda. Only little Leo, the son of a forester, stands aside from this work. One day, Leo accidentally sets fire to the grass that was being prepared for shipment. The pioneers and the workers put out the fire with great difficulty. But the leadership of the pioneer camp does not punish Leo. They believe that he needs to be reformed, so they enroll Leo in the pioneer group.
Camp in the Mountains
An agitprop film about the educational role of the Red Army. The conclusion of the GRC could not be found. The GFF has no copy of the film.