Magdana's Donkey
Watch ‘Magdana's Donkey’ Online. 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…
- Genre: Drama
- Country: Soviet Union
- Director: Tengiz Abuladze
- Cast: Dudukhana Tserodze, Liana Moistsrapishvili, Mikho Borashvili, Nani Chikvinidze, Akaki Kvantaliani, Karlo Sakandelidze, Akaki Vasadze, Aleksandre Omiadze, Aleksandre Takaishvili, Tsatsa Amirejibi, Mariya Figner, Dodo Abashidze, Nunu Machavariani, Bukhuti Zakariadze, Vasil Kakhniashvili, Mariam Garikuli,