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Magdana's Donkey (Georgian: მაგდანას ლურჯა, Russian: Лурджа Магданы, romanized: Lurja magdani) is a 1955 Georgian black-and-white social-themed drama film co-directed by Revaz Chkheidze and Tengiz Abuladze based on a short story of the same name by Ekaterine Gabashvili.
In a small Georgian village at the beginning of the 20th century (? 1895), a widow (Magdana) and her three children (Sopo,Mikho,Kato) live in poverty, making ends meet by selling yoghurt in the...
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Magdana's Donkey: Directed by Tengiz Abuladze, Rezo Chkheidze. With Dudukhana Tserodze, Liana Moistsrapishvili, Mikho Borashvili, Nani Chikvinidze. Small Georgian village (ca. 1890) Magdana a widow lives in a shack with her 3 children and ekes out a living selling yogurt.
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- Tengiz Abuladze, Rezo Chkheidze
- 1958-01-25
Magdana's Donkey (Georgian: მაგდანას ლურჯა, Russian: Лурджа Магданы, romanized: Lurja magdani) is a 1955 Georgian drama movie directed by Tengiz Abuladze and Revaz Chkheidze. It was based on the short story by Ekaterine Gabashvili.
Folk tale. Story of a poor widow, her children and a little donkey set in pre-revolution Georgia.
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.
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.
