''Don't Grieve'' (russian: Не горюй!; ka, არ იდარდო!) is a 1969 Soviet comedy film directed by
Georgiy Daneliya
Georgiy Nikolayevich Daneliya ( ka, გიორგი ნიკოლოზის ძე დანელია; russian: Георгий Николаевич Данелия; 25 August 1930 – 4 April 2019), also known as Giya Daneliya ( ka, გ ...
.Не горюй! /ref> Film is loosely based on the novel "My uncle Benjamen" by French writer Claude Tillier.
Plot
In the end of the 19th century, a young doctor, Benjamen Glonti, returns to a small village in his native
Georgia
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* Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the Southeast United States
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after finishing his medical studies in
St. Petersburg
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
. A series of comic events unfold around him.
Cast
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Sergo Zakariadze
Sergo Zakariadze ( ka, სერგო ზაქარიაძე ; – 12 April 1971) was a Soviet and Georgian stage and film actor and pedagogue. People's Artist of the USSR (1958).
Zakariadze was born in Baku in 1909. He won several pri ...
as Doctor Levan Tsintsadze
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Vakhtang Kikabidze
Vakhtang Kikabidze ( ka, ვახტანგ კიკაბიძე; born on July 19, 1938), also known as Buba ( ka, ბუბა) is a Georgian (formerly Soviet) singer, actor, screenwriter, producer, composer and politician who has served i ...
as Doctor Benjamen Glonti
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Sofiko Chiaureli
Sophia Chiaureli ( ka, სოფიკო ჭიაურელი; 21 May 1937 – 2 March 2008), professionally known as Sofiko Chiaureli, was a Soviet Georgian actress. Thought to be the muse of filmmaker Sergei Parajanov, she played a sign ...
as Sofico, Benjamen's sister
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Anastasiya Vertinskaya
Anastasiya Alexandrovna Vertinskaya (russian: link=no, Анастасия Александровна Вертинская, born 19 December 1944, Moscow, Soviet Union) is a Soviet and Russian actress, who came to prominence in the early 1960s ...
as Mery Tsintsadze, Levan's daughter
* Lia Gudadze as Margo, Vano's wife
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Veriko Anjaparidze
Veriko (Vera) Ivlianovna Anjaparidze ( ka, ვერიკო ანჯაფარიძე, in Kutaisi – 1987 in Tbilisi) was a Soviet and Georgian stage and film actress.
Life and career
Andjaparidze studied at the Aidarov Drama Studio ...
as Kalandadze's mother
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Sesilia Takaishvili
Sesilia Takaishvili (30 September 1906 - 21 May 1984) was a Georgian actress. She appeared in more than forty films from 1945 to 1983.
Selected filmography
References
External links
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1906 births
1 ...
as Aunt Domna
* Ariadna Shengelaia as Princess Vahvari
* Gogi Kavtaradze as Luka, Sofico's husband
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Ipolite Khvichia
Ipolite Khvichia (Georgian: იპოლიტე ხვიჩია) (31 December 1910 - 1 February 1985) - Georgian actor, People's Artist of Georgia.
Biography
In 1934 he graduated from Tbilisi Industrial-Economic College. In 1932-1936 he w ...
as Sandro, organ-grinder
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Karlo Sakandelidze
Karlo Sakandelidze ( ka, კარლო საკანდელიძე; April 1, 1928 – October 29, 2010) was a Georgia (country), Georgian film and theatre actor.
Sakandelidze was born in Bzvani, Georgia (country), Georgia. He was an actor ...
as Dodo, lawyer
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Dodo Abashidze
David "Dodo" Abashidze ( ka, დავით ოდოაბაშიძე; russian: Дави́д Ива́нович Абаши́дзе; 1 May 1924 – 26 January 1990) was a Soviet Georgian film actor and director. Abashidze, who joined ...
as Prince Vahvari
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Zurab Kapianidze Zurab Kapianidze ( ka, ზურაბ ქაფიანიძე; April 1, 1937 – July 4, 2011) was a Georgian theater and film actor and philologist. He was also a member of the Parliament of Georgia from 1999 to 2003.Shen Khar Venakhi, a medieval Georgian hymn.