Bashi-Achuki

Bashi-Achuki (1956)

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The 17th century rebellion in Kakheti masterminded by Bidzina Cholokashvili gets about the whole Georgia. An Imeretian youth nicknamed as Bashi-Achuk is a real exterminator of the Persians. He attacks the Persian escort and sets free the Georgian women who were supposed to be locked up in the Shah’s harem. Bashi-Achuk’s twin sisters are among the rescued captives. Abdushahil, a Persian warrior who was defeated by Bashi-Achuk in wrestling, falls in love with Mzisa, Bashi-achuk’s sister. Mzisa brings Abdushahil to the camp of the Georgian rebels. Abdushahil learns that he is a Georgian too. As a child he was kidnapped and brought up in Persia. Abdushahil’s army gives up and the Georgians win the battle.

Director: Leo Esakia
Writer: Lado Karsanidze

Casts

	Otar Koberidze as Bashi-Achuki
	Lia Eliava as Mzisa and Mtvarisa
	Medea Chakhava as Melano
	Dodo Chichinadze as Nino
	Kote Daushvili as Selimkhani
	Iusuf (Ioseb) Kobaladze as Prince Cholokashvili
	Meri Davitashvili as Tomsal-Mako
	Guram Sagaradze as Peiqar Mirza
	David Abashidze as Abdushahili
	Marina Tbileli as
	Giorgi Shavgulidze as
	Nikoloz Tsiklauri as
	Irakli Kokrashvili as

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