Khanuma (
xanuma ) is a shrewd matchmaker in the eponymous 1978 Soviet Russian
Georgian-themed television film directed by
Georgy Tovstonogov
Georgy Aleksandrovich Tovstonogov (, – 23 May 1989) was a Russian-Georgians, Georgian theatre director.
He was the leader of the Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater, Gorky Bolshoi Drama Theater which was renamed after him in 1992.
Biography
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. It is a screen version of the same name classic
Georgian vaudeville by
Avksenty Tsagareli
Avksenty Tsagareli ( Georgian: ავქსენტი ცაგარელი; Russian: Авксентий Цагарели; February 9, 1857 – August 12, 1902) was a Georgian playwright particularly known for his comedies. He was described i ...
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The text of Tsagareli's play was updated by Boris Ratser and Vladimir Konstantinov. This work is considered one of the best works of Tovstonogov.[Культура.РФ. Портал культурного наследия](_blank)
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Plot
The film takes place at the end of the 19th century in Tiflis
Tbilisi ( ; ka, თბილისი, ), in some languages still known by its pre-1936 name Tiflis ( ), ( ka, ტფილისი, tr ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Georgia (country), largest city of Georgia ( ...
, Georgia, where two matchmakers; Khanuma and Kabato, compete.
The Old Prince Vano Pantiashvili, a drunk, who misses everything possible, is looking for a rich bride to pay debts and buy back the pledged property. Khanuma found him too old and ugly for a bride with a decent dowry. Guliko, the prince knows the bride only by descriptions of Khanuma (and her age in these descriptions gradually increases), but he is mainly interested in a dowry.
A wealthy Tiflis merchant dreams of giving his daughter, Sona to marry a ruined prince in order to obtain a noble title. Meanwhile, Sona is in despair. She is in love with her music and French teacher and does not want to marry an elderly prince.
Cast
* Lyudmila Makarova as Khanuma
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* Valentina Kovel
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as Kabato
* Vladislav Strzhelchik
Vladislav Ignatievich Strzhelchik (; 1921–1995) was a Soviet and Russian actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1974).
Biography
Vladislav Strzhelchik born in Petrograd (now Saint Petersburg, Russia). His father, Ignatiy Petrovich was a native of ...
as Prince Vano Pantiashvili
* Gennadi Bogachyov as Kote, Vano's nephew
* Vadim Medvedev as Kotryants, rich merchant
* Nikolay Trofimov Nikolay Nikolaevich Trofimov (; 21 January 1920, Sevastopol — 7 November 2005, St. Petersburg) was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1990).
Biography
Nikolay Trofimov was born into a working-class family. ...
as Akop
* Boris Leskin
Boris Leskin (5 January 1923 – 21 February 2020) was a Soviet and American film and theater actor.
Biography
Leskin was born on 5 January 1923. In 1937 his father was arrested and executed. During Eastern Front (World War II), World War II L ...
as prince's friend
* Leonid Nevedomsky
Leonid Vitalievich Nevedomsky (; 13 October 1939 – 3 June 2018) was a Soviet and Russian actor. He appeared in more than 60 films and television shows between 1966 and 2007.
Biography
Leonid Nevedomsky was born on 13 October 1939 in Vit ...
as Kinto
A kinto ( ka, კინტო) was a trader or an unemployed person mostly occupied in entertaining others in Georgian ''dukhans'' (restaurants), popular in Tbilisi in the 19th century and early in the 20th century.
The Georgian Kintouri (or ' ...
History
Taking as a basis the classical vaudeville, Tovstonogov reworked it: the text was updated by the popular comediographers Boris Racer and Vladimir Konstantinov. There were no poems by Grigol Orbeliani
Prince Grigol Orbeliani or Jambakur-Orbeliani ( ka, გრიგოლ ორბელიანი; ჯამბაკურ-ორბელიანი) (2 October 1804 – 21 March 1883) was a Georgian Romanticist poet and general in Imp ...
in the original version, which Tovstonogov himself reads in the play. Recreation of the Georgian color was entrusted to the artist Joseph Sumbatashvili, who created an excellent scenery of the old Georgian city, and composer Giya Kancheli.
The play premiered on December 30, 1972. Immediately became one of the most popular stagings of Leningrad Bolshoi Drama Theater, withstood more than 300 performances.
See also
* Keto and Kote (film)
References
External links
* {{Rating, 8.3, 10
1978 films
Lenfilm films
Soviet television films
1978 television films
1970s Soviet films
1970s Russian-language films
Soviet musical comedy films
Russian-language musical comedy films
1970s musical comedy films
Soviet films based on plays
1978 comedy films
1978 musical films