Pirosmani

Film Description

  • Year: 1969
  • Length: 86 Minutes
  • Country: Georgia
  • Genre: Feature. Biography, Drama, History
  • Director: Giorgi Shengelaia
  • Art Director: Vaso Arabidze, Avtandil Varazi
  • Screenwriter: Erlom Akhvlediani, Giorgi Shengelaia
  • Cinematographer: Konstantin Apryatin, Dudar Margiev, Aleksandre Rekhviashvili
  • Cast: Avtandil Varazi, Dodo Abashidze, Zurab Kapianidze, Teimuraz Beridze, Boris Tsipuria, Kote Daushvili, Margo Gvaramadze, Nino Seturidze, Rosalia Mintshin, Aleksandre Rekhviashvili

"Pirosmani" Young, self-taught artist Niko Pirosmanashvili - arrives in Tbilisi from the village of Kakheti ,Mirzaani . At first he works as a train attendant and opens a shop, after a failed trade, he starts painting the shops. Unilaterally falls in love with a cafe-chantan’s dancer woman- Margalita. Desperate love is compounded by failure in the professional field. Pirosmani's contemporary artists does not recognize his work and publish a caricature of Nikala in the newspaper. Pirosmani, rejected by everyone and dies in solitude.