Magdana's Donkey

Magdana's Donkey — Plot

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…

• Release date
• April 1, 1955
• Runtime
• 72 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Tengiz Abuladze

Magdana's Donkey — Cast

Dudukhana Tserodze Magdana

L

Liana Moistsrapishvili Sopo

M

Mikho Borashvili Mikho

N

Nani Chikvinidze Kato Akaki Kvantaliani Mitua Karlo Sakandelidze Vano Akaki Vasadze Villige Foreman Aleqsandre Omiadze Gigo