Vladimer Mujiri
Directing
Biography
Lado Mujiri (ლადო მუჯირი, Владимир Муджири, Vladimir Mudzhiri) was a pioneer of Georgian animation. He studied at the Georgian Academy of Arts and began working in film in 1929, becoming the director of Georgia’s first animation studio at the Georgian State Film Industry (SakhKinMretsvi). His first feature animated film was The Argonauts (Argonavtebi) produced in 1936. Vladimer died on 11 July 1953.
Known For

Jointly a turtle, a sparrow and a mouse stand up to a fox
Three Friends

An animated film about cubs who did not know how to carefully play with their toys and constantly broke them.
Offended Toys

An antelope and a bear set off to conquer a mighty Caucasian summit.
Audacious Mountaineers

Hitler gives a speech before a statue of Kaiser Wilhelm II as Goebbels and other supporters literally pump him up.
He Surpassed

One of the earliest Georgian animations, the story is based on the myth of the Argonauts, featuring Medea, Jason, and the Golden Fleece.
Argonauts

A short film about respecting and preserving nature.
Spring Guests

The tale about small forest bird Chiora.
Chiora

A Cunning Fox helps out the Little Hare who is in trouble (not without his participation). Pretending to be toothless, he invites the grateful Hare and the bunnies to visit him.
A Cunning Fox
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Feathered Friends
"Spring" is an agitational cartoon poster created in 1930. In the animated film on the subject of collective farming, the Soviet ideology and agitation-propaganda are conveyed with scarce artistic methods and posters characteristic of the epoch. In a propaganda animated film, the director creates a visual statistical picture of the collective farms of each region throughout Soviet Georgia with the constant rhetoric: "The kulak is the enemy of the poor man!" "Collectivization demands!" It is demonstrated by the example of a common peasant how difficult it is to work alone with the land, and the only "correct" way is to coexist with your own work and land through collective farming. The final frame of the animation is also an echo of the Soviet propaganda poster of the 1930s, with the text: "Citizen! What part do you take in the sowing campaign?!"