Avtandil Kvirikashvili
Directing
Biography
He graduated from the acting department of the Rustaveli Georgian Theater Institute (1968). He worked as a director at the Lithuanian film Studio. He retired from the profession in 1993.
Known For
Falling Star is based on three stories by the contemporary Russian writer Viktor Astafyev and centers on a young soldier on the front lines who is wounded and taken to the hospital. Once there, he muses about his childhood and a little girl he had loved - someone who could easily have grown up to be the nurse that is attending to him now. As he recuperates, he and the nurse fall in love and he very much wants to marry her. At this point, the nurse's mother comes for a visit and advises him against such an action because if they were to marry and he were subsequently killed or maimed in action - the fighting is still close to the hospital - the nurse would suffer much more than if he just left her alone. Now it is up to the soldier to make a decision one way or the other.
Falling Stars
About the famous fortification scientist, Lieutenant General of Engineering Troops Dmitry Mikhailovich Karbyshev. Before the war, he led the work on strengthening the Brest Fortress and the approaches to Leningrad. In 1940 he was 60 years old. The beginning of the war found him in Belorussia. After one of the battles, seriously wounded, he was taken prisoner to the Mauthausen camp, where he fought against fascism for 1320 days.
Soldier of the Motherland
A political conspiracy is brewing in an unnamed Latin American country. Everything is in play: blackmail, bribery, political assassinations, newspaper slander. The operation, code-named "Centaur", is conceived in Washington.
The Centaurs
Soviet adventure comedy film based on Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Hopelessly Lost
Follows the events of August 1918 in Tsarevokokshaisk (Yoshkar-Ola), when the White Guards, led by local princes, were preparing a coup.
Who's Stronger Than Him
A young biophysicist, dreaming of spiritual and physical immortality, makes an experiment on himself: by radioactive irradiation he violates the genetic code, as a result of which he passes into another biological substance and becomes immeasurably more perfect than his fellows on Earth.
The Monarch Butterfly
A courageous journalist is looking for a witness in a very important corruption case. She's hidden in the clinic, and the journalist needs to get to her and take a statement, but there it turns out to be a cover for the psychological experiments of the sinister doctor.
Crazy Love
Two POWs - Russian and Lithuanian - are trying to escape a German Camp during WWII.