''Once Upon a Time There Was a Singing Blackbird'' (

Georgian Georgian may refer to: Common meanings * Anything related to, or originating from Georgia (country) ** Georgians, an indigenous Caucasian ethnic group ** Georgian language, a Kartvelian language spoken by Georgians **Georgian scripts, three scrip ...

: იყო შაშვი მგალობელი (''Iko shashvi mgalobeli'')) is a 1970

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comedy Comedy is a genre of fiction that consists of discourses or works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. The term o ...

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Plot

Gia is a

percussionist A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Ex ...

with an

orchestra An orchestra (; ) is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families. There are typically four main sections of instruments: * bowed string instruments, such as the violin, viola, c ...

Tbilisi Tbilisi ( ; ka, თბილისი ), in some languages still known by its pre-1936 name Tiflis ( ), is the capital and the largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Kura River with a population of approximately 1.5 million p ...

. He still lives with his mother. He occasionally finds time to talk to people, but it never lasts and he always has to hurry back to the orchestra.

Cast

* Gela Kandelaki as Gia Agladze * Gogi Chkheidze *

Jansug Kakhidze Jansug Ivanes dze Kakhidze ( ka, ჯანსუღ კახიძე; 26 May 1935 — 7 March 2002) was a Georgian musician, composer, singer and conductor nicknamed "the Georgian Karajan". Kakhidze was music director of the Georgian State ...

as Conductor *

Medea Japaridze Medea Japaridze (20 February 1923, in Tbilisi – 31 March 1994) was a Soviet and Georgian actress. People's Artist of the Georgian SSR. Life In 1939, she graduated from Tbilisi VIII secondary school. She worked for two years at the Folk Art Th ...

References

External links

* * ''Genis'
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