Vasili Chkhaidze

Known for Acting

1/2/1902

Atsana, Georgian SSR, USSR [now Georgia]

Biography

Vasili Chkhaidze was born on January 2, 1905 in Atsana, Russia as Vasili Isakovich Chkhaidze. He was an actor, known for Sherekilebi (1974), Arachveulebrivi gamopena (1968) and Mokhetiale raindebi (1975). He died on December 26, 1986.

Known For (22 credits)

7.1

Movie

Blue Mountains, or Unbelievable Story

1983

An author - a passive young man - enters the Soviet-controlled bureaucracy of Georgia attempting to get his novel published only to be neglected and compartmentalized at every turn.

Movie

Youth of a Genius

1983

Romantic and stormy, full of work, dangers and an irresistible thirst for knowledge was the youth of Al-Hussein ibn Abdallah ibn Al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Sina, who would become known throughout the world under the name of Avicenna, the great physician, scientist and educator of the 10th-11th centuries.

4.0

Movie

Tbilisi, Paris, Tbilisi

1980

Tbilisi in the beginning of the 20th century . Emigrants who moved from Tbilisi to Paris for various reasons cannot resist the feeling of nostalgia and decide to return to their homeland by air balloon .

Movie

My Friend Uncle Vanya

1980

A chance meeting between Ivan Balashov, an old Muscovite, and an 18-year-old Georgian boy who has come from a village in Adjara to enter university becomes the beginning of a great friendship.

4.3

Movie

Cabbages and Kings

1979

Everything would have gone on as usual in the island of Anchuria, if not for a small suitcase filled with hundreds of thousands of dollars that suddenly turned up at the local barber's, and the mysterious stranger who one day was washed ashore by the waves on the coast of Anchuria...

Movie

The Hole

1979

A man digs a hole in his yard while everyone is against him.

Movie

Lunch Break

1978

During the lunch break, the employees hold sports competitions, where women consistently win, frustrating the chief, who finds himself in a comical situation while trying to restore men's prestige.

5.8

Data Tutashkhia

1977

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.

2.7

Movie

Racha, My Love

1977

Visiting Slovakian Racha to get antiquated with Slovakian wine-making techniques, Rachvelian from Georgia, Zauri, falls in love with Slovak Darina. Consequentially, when Darina visits Georgia, Zauri does his best to make her also love him.

7.5

Movie

Mimino

1977

Georgian bush pilot Valentin (Valiko) Mizandari a.k.a. Mimino works at small local airlines, flying helicopters between small villages. But he dreams of piloting large international airlines aircrafts, so he goes to Moscow for refresher courses. There in a hotel he meets truck driver Robik who is given a place in that hotel by mistake, and they have a lot of adventures in Moscow. Always amicable and open to people, Mimino does not feel at home in the big city. Nevertheless, he becomes a pilot of a supersonic jet liner, the Tupolev Tu-144, flying all over the world. But feeling homesick, he finally comes back to his native town of Telavi in Georgia, to his family and friends.

Movie

The Boxes

1977

The boxes piled against the wall on one of the streets of Tbilisi fell down and disrupted traffic

Movie

Chiriki and Chikotela

1976

Chiriki and Chikotela are neighbors who have an endless dispute over a small piece of land. Neighbors will eventually reconcile when their children fall in love with each other.