
Zurab Kapianidze
Acting
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 passed away in Tbilisi in 2011 and was buried in the Didube Pantheon of Writers and Public Figures, the resting place of many prominent Georgian artists, scientists, and public figures.
Known For

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.
Tariel Golua

A just man becomes an outlaw. He is pursued by the police over the years, while he tries to fight the injustice in the world, but he can't figure out the minds of his fellow men, and is often misunderstood.
Data Tutashkhia

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.
The Fastest People in the World

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.
Return

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.
Stealing Of The Moon

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.
Living Legends

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.
Pirosmani

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...
The Snow Wedding

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.
The Plea

Screen adaptation of F. Gorenshtein's satirical stories. A short story film allegorically depicting the life of Soviet Georgia.
Clicks

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.
Small Town of Anara

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.
Chermen

A third of a series of movies about Kovpak - the partisans chief during WWII.
Poem of Kovpak: Carpathians, Carpathians...

The tragic events in Georgian history, spanning from the 16th to the 18th centuries, culminated in the signing of the Treaty of Georgievsk in 1783, which placed Georgia under Russian protection.
The Book of Oath

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.
Falling Leaves

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.
Wedding

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.
The Saplings

This touching comedy follows a poor soldier who is mistaken for Jesus Christ in a poor village. The film tells the story of a quick-witted and resourceful soldier who uses this misidentification to outsmart rich merchants, the mayor, and finally Father Ambrose, the local priest, who is known for being a glutton and womaniser.
Londre

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.
Zealous Piglet

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