Me, bebia, Iliko da Ilarioni (1962)

Director:

Tengiz Abuladze

Writers:

Tengiz Abuladze, Nodar Dumbadze (screenplay),

Stars:

Soso Ordjonikidze, Sesilia Takaishvili, Aleqsandre Jorjoliani

Cast

Cast overview:
Soso Ordjonikidze	...	Zuriko
Sesilia Takaishvili	...	Grandma
Aleqsandre Jorjoliani	...	Iliko
Grigol Tkabladze	...	Ilarioni
Manana Abazadze	...	Meri (as M. Abazadze)
Kira Andronikashvili	...	Tsira
Tengiz Daushvili	...	Kukuri (as T. Daushvili)
Ioseb Gogichaishvili	...	(as S. Gogichaishvili)
Shalva Kherkheulidze	...	Ambako
Aleqsandre Gomelauri	...	Antifo (as A. Gomelauri)
V. Sulaqvelidze	...	Teacher
Mikho Borashvili	...	Romuli

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

writing | grandmother | ambitious woman | anger | village | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Romance

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Details

Country:

Soviet Union Georgia

Language:

Georgian

Release Date:

22 May 1964 (Finland)

Also Known As:

Me, Grandma, Iliko and Ilarion

Company Credits

Production Co:

Qartuli Pilmi

Technical Specs

Runtime:

90 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

User Reviews

Nice warm old comedy

This is a very nice comedy but probably one has to be Georgian to fully understand it.

What may come as a surprise for some western viewers - is that in a soviet film of 1962 - there is virtually nothing spoken about communism and politics. Even WWII that has definite impact on the life of residents of small Georgian village goes on somewhere far away and can be felt but not seen.

Film is based on one of the most popular novels of N. Dumbadze - writer whose humoristic, touching, very insightful and at the same time easy to read novels and short stories made him incredibly popular among Georgians. Of course, fans of the book find the film inferior to the novel, but still quite nice. The only real complain that was ever made about it - that the male lead seems to be more of a well-brought middle-class city boy, than a smart, sly, provincial, but still adorable character of the book.

As I mentioned the film is a comedy but contains one rather sad episode where S. Takaishvili provides really stellar performance.

The director - T. Abuladze later made Tree of Wishes and Repentance that are among the greatest films ever made in Georgia.