Magdanas lurja 1955

Synopsis:

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…

Directed by: Tengiz Abuladze & Rezo Chkheidze
Written by: Karlo Gogodze
Runtime: 72 minutes
Cast:
Dudukhana Tserodze
Dudukhana Tserodze
Magdana 
Liana Moistsrapishvili
Liana Moistsrapishvili
Sopo 
Nani Chikvinidze
Nani Chikvinidze
Kato 
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Also known as:
  • Magdana's Donkey