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Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1925-01-04

Place of Birth

Tbilisi, Georgia SSR, USSR

Edisher Magalashvili

Biography

Edisher Magalashvili (January 4, 1925 - January 26, 2005) was a Georgian actor. He was born in Tbilisi. Magalashvili studied at the Institute of Railway Transport Engineers in Tbilisi, where he was invited to play a minor role in the film “Akaki’s cradle” by director Konstantine Pipinashvili in 1947. After this role, Edisher decided to become a professional actor. In 1947, he graduated from the film school of the Tbilisi Film Studio, and in 1953, he graduated from the Shota Rustaveli Theatre Institute in Tbilisi. From 1946 to 1950, he worked as an actor at the Tbilisi Film Studio. From 1948 to 1964, he worked at the Marjanishvili Theater, and from 1964, he worked at the Rustaveli Theater. He was married to pianist Natalia Kavtaradze, a graduate of the Tbilisi Conservatory. They had two children, George, a neurosurgeon, and Mikhail, a cinematographer. He passed away on January 26, 2005.

Known for

House in the Old District

House in the Old District

The Blue Notebook

The Blue Notebook

In the summer of 1917, Vladimir Lenin leaves Petrograd and shelters in Razliv with fellow revolutionary Grigory Zinoviev. In the weeks that follow, Lenin writes his famous "Blue Notebook" advocating proletarian revolution.

Mameluke

Mameluke

In Arabic, “mameluke” means a white slave, a prisoner. In Egypt, this name was given to prisoners of war who had been sold into slavery from Georgia and other countries of the Caucasus. The action of this drama starts in Georgia in the late 18th century. Two friends are abducted and sold into slavery. One ends up in Egypt, the other - in Venice. Years later, they meet by the ancient pyramids, in the desert where a battle is going on between the armies of Bonaparte and Ali-bey, the ruler of Egypt. In a combat with a French officer, the Mameluke injures him. Falling from his horse onto the sand, the officer exclaims in Georgian: “Vai, nana!” (“Oh, mother!”). And the Mameluke recognizes in him a mate of his childhood games.

Spirali

Spirali

In an extreme emergency, a professor’s brain is transplanted into the body of a recidivist who died in a disaster, leading to dramatic consequences.

Lullaby

Lullaby

An infant girl is abducted from her family home by two drifters. Years later, her parents track her down, but she suffers from amnesia.

Keto and Kote

Keto and Kote

Using a marriage broker, a Prince in dire financial straits plans to marry the wealthy daughter of a merchant, The girl is in love with the nephew of the prince. Forced by her father into the unwelcome match, she finds a friend in another matchmaker. They arrange it so that the prince will not like the girl when he meets her.

Tbilisi and Her Citizens

Tbilisi and Her Citizens

A sixteen novels about a life of a people in Tbilisi, capital of Georgia.

Akaki's Cradle

Akaki's Cradle

Film about the childhood and teenage years of the national poet of Georgia Akaki Tsereteli.

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A Difficult Beginning

A Difficult Beginning

A new principal is appointed at a boarding school. He will have to solve many problems before he can earn the children's trust.

The Adventures of Eli and Raru

The Adventures of Eli and Raru

The film tells the story of a little pony, Raru, who is rescued from danger by a little girl, Eli.

Time

Time

The position of village headman is inherited, but one day a stranger of unknown origin takes over the reins of the village and dominates the people.

Oh, How Sweet Is This Tender Sadness of Separation

Oh, How Sweet Is This Tender Sadness of Separation

Based on the works of Jean Anouilh. Eurydice and Orpheus meet on the platform of a railway station along with other heroes of the film. Among them is Death, who kills Eurydice. Orpheus tries in vain to save Eurydice from the kingdom of death.

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6 and 7

6 and 7

The story of the film is in the sequence of narration of the subject world, the graphic side of the title serves the eternal alternation of extremely opposite, positive and negative forces, their confrontation and the concept of their unity, where the time torn by humanity is restored as a mysterious clarity ... The film is an attempt to re-evaluate the values, to overcome the difficulties that exist both in the material world fallen as a result of sin, as well as in the bodies of spiritual beings that guide the historical process.