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Magdana's Donkey (1955)

Magdana's Donkey (1955)

Drama
Release Date: 1955, April 1
Directors: Tengiz Abuladze, Rezo Chkheidze
Countries: Soviet Union
Production: Georgia-Film
Cast: Mikho Borashvili, Karlo Sakandelidze, David Abashidze, Dudukhana Tserodze, Nani Chikvinidze, Akaki Vasadze, Aleqsandre Omiadze, Nunu Machavariani, Akaki Kvantaliani, Tsatsa Amirejibi, Liana Moistsrapishvili, Aleksandre Takaishvili

Overview:

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…