Don't Grieve

Don't Grieve
Directed by	Georgiy Daneliya
Written by	Claude Tillier (novel  [fr])
Starring	Sergo Zakariadze Vakhtang Kikabidze
Music by	Giya Kancheli
Release date	22 December 1969 (1969-12-22)
Running time	90 min
Country	Soviet Union
Languages	Georgian Russian

Don't Grieve (Russian: Не горюй!; Georgian: არ იდარდო!) is a 1969 Soviet comedy film directed by Georgiy Daneliya.^[1] Film is loosely based on the novel "My uncle Benjamen" by French writer Claude Tillier.

Plot[]

In the end of the 19th century, a young doctor, Benjamen Glonti, returns to a small village in his native Georgia after finishing his medical studies in St. Petersburg. A series of comic events unfold around him.

Cast[]

• Sergo Zakariadze as Doctor Levan Tsintsadze
• Vakhtang Kikabidze as Doctor Benjamen Glonti
• Sofiko Chiaureli as Sofico, Benjamen's sister
• Anastasiya Vertinskaya as Mery Tsintsadze, Levan's daughter
• Lia Gudadze as Margo, Vano's wife
• Veriko Anjaparidze as Kalandadze's mother
• Sesilia Takaishvili as Aunt Domna
• Ariadna Shengelaia as Princess Vahvari
• Gogi Kavtaradze as Luka, Sofico's husband
• Ipolite Khvichia as Sandro, organ-grinder
• Karlo Sakandelidze as Dodo, lawyer
• Dodo Abashidze as Prince Vahvari
• Zurab Kapianidze as His servant

Music[]

In the film, Kikabidze performs Shen Khar Venakhi, a medieval Georgian hymn.

Awards[]

References[]

External links[]

• Don't Grieve at IMDb

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