Magdana's Donkey (movie)
მაგდანას ლურჯა- User score: 5.9
- Production country: Soviet Union
- Producer: Rezo Chkheidze , Tengiz Abuladze
- Production companies: Georgia-Film
- Genre: Drama
- Release date: 4/1/1955
- Run time: 72 min.
Movie description
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…
