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Bashi-Achuki (1956)

Bashi-Achuki (1956)

Romance Adventure History
Release Date: 1956, December 2
Directors: Leo Esakia
Countries: Soviet Union
Production: Georgia-Film
Cast: Dodo Chichinadze, Otar Koberidze, David Abashidze, Lia Eliava, Kote Daushvili, Medea Chakhava, Meri Davitashvili, Iusuf (Ioseb) Kobaladze, Guram Sagaradze

Overview:

The 17th century rebellion in Kakheti masterminded by Bidzina Cholokashvili gets about the whole Georgia. An Imeretian youth nicknamed as Bashi-Achuk is a real exterminator of the Persians. He attacks the Persian escort and sets free the Georgian women who were supposed to be locked up in the Shah’s harem. Bashi-Achuk’s twin sisters are among the rescued captives. Abdushahil, a Persian warrior who was defeated by Bashi-Achuk in wrestling, falls in love with Mzisa, Bashi-achuk’s sister. Mzisa brings Abdushahil to the camp of the Georgian rebels. Abdushahil learns that he is a Georgian too. As a child he was kidnapped and brought up in Persia. Abdushahil’s army gives up and the Georgians win the battle.