Revaz Gabriadze

Birth : 1936-06-29, Kutaisi, Georgia

Death : 2021-06-06

History

Revaz "Rezo" Gabriadze was a Georgian theatre and film director, playwright, writer, painter, and sculptor. In addition to writing the scripts to some of the most popular comedies of the Soviet era, he won widespread acclaim for his work as the founder and artistic director of a puppet theatre in his hometown of Kutaisi, Georgia. His son, Levan Gabriadze, is also an actor and film director.

Movies

Pushkin-Bitov-Gabriadze. The Escape
self
Russian writer Andrey Bitov and Georgian artist Rezo Gabriadze talk about Pushkin. The picture is made in the synthetic genre of animadoc — at the junction of documentary films and artistic animation.
Rezo
The rich inner world of famous Georgian theater and film director, artist and puppeteer Rezo Gabriadze is as fantastic as the animation into which he has poured this story of his life. Rezo’s director son Levan "Leo" Gabriadze, who previously made the horror film Unfriended (2014), leaves it to his father to talk about a life suffused with magical thinking.
Rezo
Writer
The rich inner world of famous Georgian theater and film director, artist and puppeteer Rezo Gabriadze is as fantastic as the animation into which he has poured this story of his life. Rezo’s director son Levan "Leo" Gabriadze, who previously made the horror film Unfriended (2014), leaves it to his father to talk about a life suffused with magical thinking.
Rezo
Story
The rich inner world of famous Georgian theater and film director, artist and puppeteer Rezo Gabriadze is as fantastic as the animation into which he has poured this story of his life. Rezo’s director son Levan "Leo" Gabriadze, who previously made the horror film Unfriended (2014), leaves it to his father to talk about a life suffused with magical thinking.
Ku! Kin-dza-dza
Story
Beginner DJ Shreds and world-renowned cellist Vladimir Chizhov meet on a noisy street in Moscow barefoot man. Clicking on the strange machine, the characters are moved to the desert planet Plyuk. A remake of the beloved animated film "Kin-dza-dza!" No less fascinating and funny than the original, the adventures of the Shred and Uncle Vova. In this world of sand inhabitants are divided into two categories - patsaks and chatlan, a simple match has incredible value, and the people are met and escorted by the color of his pants.
The Passport
Writer
A man, who becomes mistaken for his brother who was immigrating to Israel from USSR, finds himself caught up in the middle of a bureaucratic mess when he realizes that if he tells the truth about who he is, he will go to jail and his brother's family will never be allowed to leave the USSR. He therefore assumes his brother's identity to get to Israel hoping his distant uncle living there will help him out. The plan backfires, however, when he realizes that the uncle is a paranoid lunatic thinking the KGB is out to get him. He becomes stranded in Israel with no friends, no money, and no passport, trying to figure out a way to get back home.
Kin-dza-dza!
Writer
Two Soviet humans previously unknown to each other are transported to the planet Pluke in the Kin-dza-da galaxy due to a chance encounter with an alien teleportation device. They must come to grips with a language barrier and Plukian social norms (not to mention the laws of space and time) if they ever hope to return to Earth.
Miracle on the Thread
Small creatures on strings, seemingly absolutely alive, play out amazing stories that make you laugh and cry, reflect, worry and empathize.
Dyuma na Kavkaze
Writer
Однажды Александр Дюма-отец решил посетить Кавказ. Там его ждало немало приключений... Веселая фантазия о пребывании на Кавказе великого французского романтика. Необычайные приключения, любовь, дружба, верность помогают герою, вступившему в борьбу с жестоким и коварным черкесским князем Вахвари.
Dreams of Kojori Forest
Director
Experimental puppet film based on jazz variations of Georgian urban folklore. Musical compositions are performed by singers (puppets) gathered in Kojori Forest to celebrate The New Year
Mimino
Writer
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.
Butterfly
Screenplay
A short story about three cheerful road workers who help a beautiful girl catch butterflies.
Mountain Summiters
Screenplay
Having met road workers, a sports instructor convinces them to sign up in the mountaineering section and begin to conquer the surrounding peaks.
Mountain Summiters
Director
Having met road workers, a sports instructor convinces them to sign up in the mountaineering section and begin to conquer the surrounding peaks.
Caucasian romance
Director
Relatives of the beautiful Mardjan consider Elberd unworthy of her hand. Father, uncle and grandmother keep the girl locked up. And for protection they use a whole pack of dogs. But the cunning Elberd manages to lure the dogs into large baskets, hang them high on the branches of trees, and take his beloved out of the house.
SAZAMTRO
Writer
The sun and the moon team up with a hardworking watermelon farmer to teach a lesson to a lazy person.
The Eccentrics
Writer
Surrealistic movie about prisoners who invent flying apparatus.
Serenada
Writer
Georgian about Charli chaplini
The Jar
Writer
Feola
Screenplay
A man is put in charge of organizing a children's soccer team, but he doesn't know anything about the sport.
Don't Grieve!
Writer
Benjamin, the local doctor is a soul of a local society, the educated, friendly, democratic person who often treats the poor for free. It makes him very popular with the locals but most certainly does not help with his bank account. He is in love with a beautiful Manette who is also crazy about him but is being watched closely by her father who called his daughter "his small capital" and is determined to protect her virginity until the moment the marriage contract has been signed...
An Unusual Exhibition
Writer
The war is over. Once a young sculptor, and now a soldier, he returned home. Married, there were children. In search of work, he was hired to make grave monuments. Time passed... At one time, visiting a cemetery with friends, he saw with different eyes all his work done over the years...