Magdana's Donkey
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This chamber drama is set in Georgia on the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. A simple peasant family makes its living by selling yogurt which the Magdany widow takes every morning to the town market. Once, in their mother’s absence, the children – six-year-old Mikho and three-year-old Kato – found an abandoned donkey on a road leading to their village. The foundling was fed, tended, and the moment the donkey opened its big, tender eyes, it was named “Lurdja”, which means “blue-eyed”. Surrounded by love and care, the donkey became a big help in the poor household. But this idyll was not to last long…
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Dudukhana Tserodze
Magdana
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Liana Moistsrapishvili
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Mikho Borashvili
Mikho
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Nani Chikvinidze
Kato
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Gigo
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Aleksandre Takaishvili
Judge
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Tsatsa Amirejibi
Keke
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Mariya Figner
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Tengiz Abuladze Director · Rezo Chkheidze Director Karlo Gogodze Writer
First release April 1, 1955 · Produced in Russia, Georgia, Russia · Production Georgian-Film
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Georgia-Film
Production
Georgian-Film
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Russia · Georgia · Russia
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Original title
მაგდანას ლურჯა
Original language
Georgian
Spoken on screen
Georgian
Release dates
Russia · April 1, 1955
Limited theatrical · Tbilisi
No release date listed for United States.
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