There Once Was a Singing Blackbird

There Once Was a Singing Blackbird

78 mins | Drama, Comedy, Music | Oct. 20, 1974

Gia is a carefree young percussionist who works at a theater in Tbilisi, capital of Georgia. He lives in a small apartment with his mother. Gia spends his days flitting from friend to friend, lover to lover, avoiding any responsibility, and never staying still for five minutes. However, he always manages to arrive at the theater just in time to play the drums at the end of the ballet.

There Once Was a Singing Blackbird

78 mins | Drama, Comedy, Music | Oct. 20, 1974

There Once Was a Singing Blackbird
Gia is a carefree young percussionist who works at a theater in Tbilisi, capital of Georgia. He lives in a small apartment with his mother. Gia spends his days flitting from friend to friend, lover to lover, avoiding any responsibility, and never staying still for five minutes. However, he always manages to arrive at the theater just in time to play the drums at the end of the ballet.
IMDb rating 7.6
Producers Georgian-Film
Original title იყო შაშვი მგალობელი
Directors Otar Iosseliani
Writers Sh. Kakichashvili, Dimitri Eristavi, Otar Mekhrishvili, Ilya Nusinov, Semyon Lungin, Otar Iosseliani

Cast

Gela Kandelaki

as Gia Agladze

Jansug Kakhidze

as Conductor