Merab Ninidze

Merab Ninidze

Nacimiento : 1965-11-03, Tbilisi, USSR

Historia

Merab Ninidze is a Georgian actor. He is best known for the roles of Oleg Penkovsky in The Courier and Vadim Kalyagin in McMafia.

Perfil

Merab Ninidze
Merab Ninidze

Películas

House Arrest
David
David, a university professor, takes to social media to criticize his city’s administration. But instead of the mayor’s dodgy dealings being investigated, David is himself accused of embezzlement and placed under house arrest. Despite the overbearing surveillance, double-crossing acquaintances, and growing media interest, David remains defiant and will not apologise. With the court case drawing ever nearer, does David have any hope of winning this battle against Goliath?
Sin remordimientos
Andrej Vaseliev
Un comando SEAL de élite descubre una conspiración internacional mientras busca hacer justicia por el asesinato de su mujer en Sin remordimientos, de Tom Clancy. El explosivo origen del héroe de acción John Clark, uno de los personajes más populares del universo Jack Ryan, del escritor Tom Clancy.
Vom geben und Nehmen - Der Usedom-Krimi
Lucjan Gadocha
Schmerzgrenze - Der Usedom-Krimi
Lucjan Gadocha
Nachtschatten - Der Usedom-Krimi
Lucjan Gadocha
Das Gesetz sind wir
Djamal Issa
El espía inglés
Oleg Penkovsky
Durante la Guerra Fría entre Estados Unidos y Rusia, el ingeniero Greville Wynne (Benedict Cumberbatch) se infiltra como espía en el MI6, servicio de inteligencia británico. Cuando la crisis de los misiles cubanos promete inclinar la balanza a favor del país soviético, Wynne comenzará a trabajar con la CIA para filtrar información sobre el plan que tienen en marcha los rusos y así evitar una catástrofe.
Strandgut - Der Usedom-Krimi
Lucjan Gadocha
Der Usedom-Krimi: Mutterliebe
Lucjan Gadocha
Percht
Truck Driver‘s Voice
It's Christmas season in a small town somewhere in the Austrian countryside. Following tradition, the young local men parade in daemon-like masks to chase away the winter...
Carneval - Der Clown bringt den Tod
Witrenko
A tricky out-of-area mission for Peter Lohmeyer alias Chief Inspector Jan Fabel in his fourth case: in the hustle and bustle of Cologne Carnival, of all things, the introverted hamburger has to chase a serial killer and stop a colleague from going it alone. Lisa Maria Potthoff plays the policewoman Maria, whose traumatic experience turns into a blind thirst for vengeance, Stipe Erceg can be seen in the role of the burned-out top chef and Murathan Muslu as a macho criminal. The lost souls are what make this bestseller film adaptation by the author Craig Russell, which is extremely exciting right up to the last second.
McMafia
Vadim Kalyagin
Alex Godman, the English-raised son of Russian mafia exiles, has spent his life trying to escape the shadow of their past, building his own legitimate business and forging a life with his girlfriend Rebecca. But when a murder forces his family's past to return to threaten them, Alex is drawn into the criminal underworld and must confront his values to protect those he loves.
Jupiter's Moon
Gabor Stern
Al intentar cruzar ilegalmente la frontera, el joven emigrante Aryan es disparado, y la herida le otorga el poder de levitar. Con la ayuda del doctor Stern, logra escapar de un campo de refugiados. Fascinado por los superpoderes de Aryan, Stern ve la oportunidad de explotar el milagro. Kornél Mundruczó presentó en Cannes este thriller en el que lo sobrenatural se mezcla con una de las grandes tragedias contemporáneas.
My Happy Family
Soso
En una sociedad patriarcal, conviven tres generaciones de una familia georgiana bajo un mismo techo. Todos se sorprenden cuando Manana, de 52 años, decide mudarse de la casa de sus padres y vivir sola. Sin su familia y su marido, comienza un viaje hacia lo desconocido.
Rehenes
Levan
Año 1983. Nueve jóvenes de Georgia que pertenecen a familias de la élite intelectual, intentan huir de la Unión Soviética secuestrando un avión. ¿Conseguirán escapar del comunismo que domina su país?. Película basada en hechos reales
Lou Andreas-Salomé, The Audacity to be Free
Friedrich Carl Andreas
Biopic de la escritora rusa Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861-1937), una mujer adelantada a su tiempo que departió con Nietzsche, fue analizada por Sigmund Freud y se rodeó de grandes de artistas y escritores de finales de la época como el poeta Rainer Maria Rilke, de la que fue amante.
The Puppet Syndrome
Boris
Since early childhood Peter has been obsessed with the world of puppets, but his greater obsession is with a real girl, Lisa. He crafts his perfect woman out of her. But Lisa isn't a docile marionette. She's a living human being and she rebels against her creator. Based on the critically-acclaimed, brilliant and poignant novel by one of the best contemporary Russian writers, Dina Rubina, "Petrushka Syndrome" is a multidimensional metaphor, where a sense of duality pervades everything. People and dolls, life and art, the Creator and the creation depend on one another. And where does one draw the line between them?
El puente de los espías
Soviet Main Interrogator
Década de los 60. Estados Unidos y la Unión Soviética se encuentran en plena Guerra Fría. El 1 de mayo de 1960 un avión espía americano fue derribado por el ejército enemigo cuando sobrevolaba territorio soviético. Sorprendentemente, el piloto, Francis Gary Powers, logra escapar gracias a su paracaídas. Cuando ya se creía a salvo, es capturado por los rusos. El abogado James B. Donovan es el encargado de negociar la liberación del soldado.
Thank You for Bombing
Thank you for Bombing accompanies three correspondents to their working place in conflict areas and gives an insight into their daily routine aside from cameras and satellite phones - somewhere between bombing alarm, laundry and Bach flower therapy.
B/W
Нурик
Nurick and Yaroslav are trying to robe a criminal boss. Unfortunately Nurick dies but returns to the world with a mission: to be the guardian angel of Yaroslav.
Under Electric Clouds
Nikolai
Russia 2017. The world could be on the verge of a great war. People are anxious that things could fall apart. Evolving around an unfinished building, a diverse group of outsiders struggle to find their place in this rapidly changing society, making up the mosaic of existence that is life itself…
After Love
The Painter
A cinematic menage-a-trois between a photographer, a rentboy and a transsexual call girl.
Bis zum Ende der Welt
Zano
Unter Feinden
Idris Maher
Invasion
Konstantin
Joseph is in his mid-sixties and has just lost his beloved wife. Everything in his big old mansion reminds him painfully of the years they spent together. One day several visitors turn up unexpectedly. They seem to be relatives of his deceased wife. In the beginning, the uninvited guests treat Joseph with loving care, but bit by bit the situation begins to change. The visitors slowly, almost unnoticably, become aggressive, even hostile, invaders. They try to get rid of Joseph and take over his house, his world, his thoughts. Is this just the paranoia of an old man or really a ruthless invasion?
Blutadler
Wassyl Witrenko
A cruel serial killer keeps the Hamburg police in suspense. Two women have already fallen victim to him. Both were killed after a Viking ritual, the so-called blood eagle. Although the perpetrator, Chief Inspector Fabel sends mysterious e-mails, the investigator pats in the dark. Only little by little it turns out that you are dealing not only with a psychopathic killer, but with a mafia gang, in whose machinations even senior police officers are entangled.
Love with an Accent
From odd situations to complicated emotions, various obstacles test a group of people in their pursuits of true love in this collection of stories.
Das Geheimnis in Siebenbürgen
Nikolai Ilinescu
El cuarto estado
Un periodista descubre una trama terrorista en Moscú mientras investigaba al servicio secreto ruso.
Russisch Roulette
Alexej Romanowitsch
Weihnachtsengel küsst man nicht
Alex
The pre-Christmas season is anything but contemplative for Lina, model and advertising jingle singer, and her best friend Nettie, who runs an event and partner agency: the two can hardly save themselves from second-class Christmas orders. And it's not for the first time that Lina and Nettie are preparing for lonely holidays. Nettie has long since given up hope of still finding the right one, and Lina's dream man Alex, a married doctor, has not yet separated from his wife.
Winter's Daughter
Alexei
For 11-year-old Kattaka it's an escape: she's looking for her biological father, a Russian sailor whose ship is currently moored in Gdansk and whose existence her parents have kept secret until now. For 70-year-old Lena it's a journey back: back to her home in Masuren, from which she fled in the Second World War. And back to her suppressed pain of having lost both parents. Only together can the mismatched couple regain the ground beneath their feet, and themselves.
4 días de mayo
Major
Alemania, costa del mar Báltico, mayo de 1945, unos días antes del final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Una pequeña patrulla soviética llega a una casa aislada donde una anciana baronesa da refugio a un grupo de niñas huérfanas y a un niño que está decidido a continuar con la lucha.
From Tokyo
Rescuer
This film is a very short story about a former rescue worker returning from Tokyo – a man who is quite successful in his everyday life, and who, after hearing about another earthquake in Japan, dropped everything and went there to help. He is flying back home in an almost empty plane. Indeed, many regular flights have been canceled, and the ones that are still operated do not sell out. He is flying back with a very elderly Japanese man he had just saved – the man is now all alone in the world, his family had died. And the two men somehow clicked. Perhaps because our main character is also lonely. Also flying with them on the plane are those who are no longer here.Those who did not survive the disaster. Together with the characters, their past moves through space – their memories, their world. The world that is no less, but perhaps even more important for them than the reality.
My Best Enemy
Moritz Haiden
Poland 1943: An unlikely pair - a concentration camp prisoner and a captain in Hitler's notorious SS - free themselves from the wreckage of a crashed SS airplane. The two appear to be strangely familiar with each other and the extent of their extraordinary relationship is thrillingly revealed.
Schicksalsjahre
Niklas Psathos
Erzählt wird die authentische Lebensgeschichte der Ursula Heye, Mutter von Uwe-Karsten Heye. Der Bogen reicht vom "Wegschauen" beim Nazi-Terror gegen die Juden Ende der 1930er Jahre über die Trennung und die erzwungene Scheidung von ihrem Mann Wolfgang, von dessen Desertion und Verschwinden bis hin zum - glücklosen - Wiedersehen in den 1950er Jahren.
The Cameramurderer
Thomas
What starts out as a relaxing weekend at lake Neusiedl ends in fear and horror for two friendly couples. Three children have gone missing from the neighbouring village. As tensions increase people start showing their true colours.
Paper Soldier
Doctor Daniil Pokrovsky
In 1961, a Soviet medical officer is conflicted about his position overseeing the health of future cosmonauts.
The Rainbowmaker
Datho
Datho (Merab Ninidze) has been innocent in prison for many years. When he comes home nobody wants him. His angelic wife Elene (Anna Antonowicz) has fun with a fire-eater. The two children imagined the father as a hero, not as a sorrowful knight. But everything changes when Datho can freeze his enemies in the bathtub or he calls for rain so that they remain stuck in the mud.
Mediator
Hitman
Georgia's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2008
Marcados por el III Reich
Russischer Offizier
Berlín, año 1940. El padre de Michael es deportado a un campo de concentración donde muere. Tres años más tarde, Michael, de 10 años, y su madre Anna deciden huir de su hogar con papeles e identidades falsas. Pero alguien les descubre…
Liebes Leid und Lust
André Schott
Conny und die verschwundene Ehefrau
Thomas Landsberg
Schön, dass es Dich gibt
Peters Freund Gérard
Jackies' quiet life as a housewife and English teacher ends abruptly when her husband informs her that he is leaving her for a younger woman. In a quest for revenge, Jackie makes arrangements with a plastic surgeon for a general overhaul with the goal of landing a younger husband. A newspaper leads her to Peter who is as bored by his insurance job as he is by the young women he has been dating. Written by John W. Wrist
Sterne leuchten auch am Tag
Ruben Costa
The Amber Amulet
Michael Belajew
Summer of 1944. Young baroness Barbara is getting married. Her husband, Alexander, leaves to the war and disappears after giving Barbara the amber amulet as symbol of their love. Soviet soldiers, commanded by Major Belyaev are placed in the estate of Barbara parents. Barbara falls in love with a Russian officer.
Cattolica
Martin
Stefan, a gay bartender in a trendy club, doesn't care a lot about his professional and personal future. One night, the mysterious Martin stares at him, so he thinks that his guest searches a quick love affair. Stefan invites him to his apartment, where Martin is rather surprised at his intentions and explains that he doesn't want sex, but his attention for their common past. Martin searches his father, a foreign worker from Italy, who is also Stefan's originator, which he didn't know. Their mother kept Martin, while Stefan was adopted. After the first shock, Stefan decides to join his "new brother" on his trip to Italy. They only have some photos and letters of a holiday trip to Cattolica and their father's name: Giuseppe Iacoviello. This is the beginning of an odyssey across Italy and their way to themselves...
August der Glückliche
Icarus
Milan
Lena is homeless. She couldn't get a foothold in the big city, she hasn't been at home in the country for a long time and she only knows the big, wide world, which she allegedly traveled as a waitress on a cruise ship, from hearsay. Her grandfather's funeral is now both an occasion and an excuse for her to return to the village in the hope of finding her place in life here after all.
Verlorenes Land
Jean-Pierre
En un lugar de África
Walter Redlich
Regina, de cinco años, empieza una nueva vida junto a sus padres en una destartalada granja de Kenia, donde han llegado huyendo del nazismo alemán. La niña pronto se adapta a las nuevas condiciones de vida, pero a sus padres les cuesta más.
Ene mene muh – und tot bist du
A small retirement home on the edge of Vienna where the city's oldest residents live. Patients over the age of 100 begin to die under mysterious circumstances. The police's secret investigation concentrates on the nursing staff at first. But the new medical director, Dr. Klein, discovers that one of the patients is the culprit.
La novia del viento
russischer Soldat
Viena. 1902. Alma Schindler, una joven y apasionada compositora, se enamora del compositor checo Gustav Mahler. Tras contraer matrimonio, Gustav obliga a Alma a abandonar la música y dedicarse exclusivamente a su familia. Sin embargo, la repentina muerte de uno de sus hijos hace que Alma se aleje de su marido para redescubrir el amor y recuperar su pasión por la música.
England!
Pavel
Valeri Sikorski knows from his doctors that his days are numbered because of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. He wants to make a last adventure in his life and goes to England, but first he stops in Berlin to pick up his best friend Victor. But Victor has disappeared. Now Valeri's journey turns into a search for his old friend Victor.
In Heaven
I Heaven's plot revolves around three friends with personal ambitions who must face the less pleasant aspects of reality. The story is told from the point of view of 17-year-old Csiwi, a loner who spends his evenings driving around in his brother's car or simply hanging out. He has no idea about the direction his future should take. He runs into Levi and Valeska and they easily become his bosom friends despite their differences. Levi, whose circumstances have constantly been changing, is looking for something stable in his life. He works very hard so that he can afford his own flat. Valeska is restless and fascinated by distant places and change. For her, postcards symbolize places where happiness is hidden. Valeska and Levi represent two different ways of living and Csiwi must decide for himself which road to take. He feels the first pangs of love towards Valeska, and Levi easily becomes a good friend. Together they set off in a new direction, which could be their heaven on earth.
Luna Papa
Alik
La hija aún no nacida de Mamlakat está contando su historia. Mamlakat tiene diecisiete años, es bonita y vivaz, y sueña en secreto con ser actriz. Vive con su padre y su hermano en un pequeño pueblo de la Asia central donde una noche es seducida por un actor de una compañía errante, quien se hace pasar por amigo de Tom Cruise, y la deja embarazada. Mamlakat intenta abortar, pero su padre y su hermano deciden encontrar al seductor, iniciando una cascada de cómicas aventuras.
Suzie Washington
Resa Madani
Nana Iaschwili, a teacher from East Europe, wants to emigrate to America to start a new life. After landing in Vienna, the authorities notice her falsified visa and arrest her. Nana, threatened with deportation, would prefer anything except being sent back and escapes. She must keep on the move constantly. The police are hot on her trail. Together with other illegal aliens, Nana, alias "Suzie Washington", flees to the so-called "green border", the no-man's-land between East and West. The police, cows and lonely men keep getting in her way.
Debt of Love
Unknown Man
Simon Granderath has been found dead in his appartment. His only daughter, Monika Besse, who lives in Luxembourg, arrives to arrange the funeral and settle his estate. She wishes to get back to Luxembourg and to her normal life as quickly as possible. However, she quickly realizes that in fact, she hardly knew her father, and tries to trace the various stages and encounters that made up his life. Much later, she realizes that the search for the identity of her father has actually become a search of her own identity – though still she believes she can get closer to her father after his death.
Yugofilm
Sascha
The lives of a Serb family are torn apart by the pressures of the not-too-distant war with the Croats. The film addresses the fundamental question "Can love survive between political enemies?"
Hasenjagd - Vor lauter Feigheit gibt es kein Erbarmen
Nikolai
This film is based on the actual events referred to as the "Mühlviertler Hasenjagd" (Hare-hunt in the Mühlviertel) which occurred in February 1945 around the Mauthausen concentration camp. 500 Soviet officers form death block 20 attempt to escape, but only 150 of them actually succeed. Following the tally-ho of the SS, a barbaric manhunt begins. Only very few fugitives survive. With a lot of good luck, the two young officers Michail and Nikolai reach the Karner family's farm. Frau Karner persuades her husband to hide the two escapees.
Miakhloeba
A full-blooded, interesting life has long eluded the house where a mother, father, son and daughter live. Trivial household matters, conversation at dinner about duty — that's all that connects them. The situation changes when it becomes known that the family inherited the village house, and that it will probably be necessary to enter into a struggle with the joint heirs. From the bottom of chests, old albums and documents confirming the priority of the family are extracted, and intrigues begin ...
Roots
In the hot summer of 1917, the nineteen-year-old peasant Georgy Zakareishvili left his village in search of work and, settling on a French ship, soon found himself in Paris, where he married a Frenchwoman. Modest wealth, beloved wife, sons and a faithful friend helped him to endure separation from his homeland. When the opportunity came to his homeland, George was already old and could not postpone the upcoming meeting with his native Georgia. He tried to convey his love to his grandson George: he sang folk songs, taught Georgian, talked about the people of his village. And now, in fulfillment of his grandfather’s orders, George the Younger took his ashes to his homeland...
Repentance
Tornike
The day after the funeral of Varlam Aravidze, the mayor of a small Georgian town, his corpse turns up in his son's garden. Although it is secretly reburied, the corpse keeps returning until the police capture the local woman who is responsible. This woman says that Varlam should never be laid to rest since his Stalin-like reign of terror led to the disappearance of her family and friends.
Full Circle
Irakliy
Full Circle. Whirlwind.
The Step
Alexi leaves the house of his father and stepmother and rents an apartment. He wants to be independent and find his place in the world. But no basic changes ensue – he has the same friends, with the same trivial conversations and the same inactivity. Only the death of his favorite teacher, to whom the young man felt very close, really changes his habitual way of life. Alexi makes a decision: he refuses a place at a research institute and leaves for a teaching job at a village school, the same school his mentor used to work at.
Those Who Find Me
Nina works in the only small hospital of a provincial town as an OB-GYN. Single and in abstinence from personal relationships, she is unconditionally devoted to her Hippocratic oath. When a newborn dies within seconds of being delivered under her supervision, she is accused of wrongdoings. Under investigation, every detail of Nina's personal and professional life is being scrutinized. Despite the risks, Nina remains devoted to her duty as a doctor, committed to doing what nobody else will.
Russian Whispers
Viktor
Planning a wedding is rarely this tense. Even among gangsters. Parents of the groom visit the home of their soon-to-be-in-laws, where they plan the upcoming nuptials. Questions of class and tradition soon become a sticking point.