George Saakadze

George Saakadze (1942)

გიორგი სააკაძე

The film tells about the struggle of the Georgian people under the leadership of the great commander George Saakadze for a centralized state.

Date of release
1942-11-14
TMDB
5.0 / 10 (10)
Runtime
3h 4m
Genres
History, War
Director
Mikheil Chiaureli

Casting

Interesting facts

Giorgi Saakadze is a 1942 Soviet historical drama film directed by Mikheil Chiaureli. The screenplay was written by Anna Antonovskaya and Boris Chenry on the basis of Antonovskaya's 1942 Stalin Prize-winning six-volume novel, Veliky Mouravi. The film is a dramatization of the story of Giorgi Saakadze, a 17th-century Georgian political and military leader who was celebrated as a national hero of Georgia in Soviet wartime propaganda. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin was personally involved in modifying the movie's script.

Trivia

In this film, Director Mikheil Chiaureli gave a small role to his nephew Georgiy Daneliya, who would go on to become an influential Soviet and Russian film director. Daneliya played a peasant boy, but none of his scenes were included in the final film.

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