George Saakadze (1942)
November 14, 1942Release Date
George Saakadze (1942)
November 14, 1942Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Sergo Zakariadze
Medea Japaridze
Tinatin
Veriko Anjaparidze
Rusudan Saakadze
Akaki Khorava
Veriko Anjaparidze
Liana Asatiani
Merab Kokochashvili
Little Paata Saakadze
Spartak Bagashvili
Guguli Mgeladze
Zura Lejava
Avtandil
Giorgi Shavgulidze
Aleqsandre Omiadze
Mikheil Chiaureli
Director
Shalva Gambashidze
Prince Andukapar
Viktor Tsirgiladze
Producer
Boris Cherniy
Screenplay
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Release DateNovember 14, 1942
Original Nameგიორგი სააკაძე
StatusReleased
Running Time3h 4m
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Giorgi Saakadze (Russian: Георгий Саакадзе, Georgian: გიორგი სააკაძე) 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 Great Mouravi). The film is a dramatization of the story of Giorgi Saakadze (portrayed by Akaki Khorava), 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.
The film emphasized that Saakadze, initially an obscure squire, was a victim of machinations at the hands of the wealthy feudal lords who would sacrifice everything, including their motherland, for their own benefit. It intentionally avoided any mention of Saakadze's own attempts to gain political power and illustrated him as a popular leader against the external aggressors. In the atmosphere of suspicion and spy mania in the Soviet Union during these years, the movie also served contemporary propaganda by emphasizing that treason against the popular leader, and hence the country, was to be punished cruelly.